Comparing Countries’ Performance in Organ Donation: Time to Focus on Their Real Potential

Roels, L; Gachet, Caroline; Cohen, Bernard

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“…All western‐European countries are faced with a large shortage of donor organs [1–6]. As donor organs are scarce and patients are dying while waiting for an organ, the loss of potential donors (deceased people who are medically suitable) should be reduced to a minimum.…”

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Donor education campaigns since the introduction of the Dutch organ donation act: increased cohesion between campaigns has paid off

Coppen¹,

Friele²,

Gevers³

et al. 2010

Transplant International

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Governments utilize special policy measures to increase and maintain positive attitudes among their citizens towards consent registration and organ donation. Little has been published on these national strategies. Some studies report on the impact of single policy measures shortly after their implementation, whereas the assessment of the impact of a national strategy on organ donation over a long period of time has been lacking. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of the Dutch donor education strategy (1998-2008) on the availability of donor organs, by trying to disentangle the impact of education from other factors. In this study, we have devised a research strategy to assess the impact of policy measures at national level, while providing information about Dutch initiatives to increase registration and procurement rates, and demonstrating and explaining these increases. The increased resources and improved strategies employed to educate the public in relation to organ donation have paid off, but the impact decreases over time. The question remains whether the effects of these policy measures will further level off over time and what levels of increase in donor registration rates and efficiency of donor procurement are realistic targets to achieve.

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confidence: 99%

Donor education campaigns since the introduction of the Dutch organ donation act: increased cohesion between campaigns has paid off

Coppen¹,

Friele²,

Gevers³

et al. 2010

Transplant International

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“…Recently, we proposed the concept of an efficiency index to be used for international comparisons and calculated on the basis of countries' age‐standardized mortality rates and published donation rates (8). Table 1 shows a Procurement Efficiency Index ranking for 14 countries, based on national transplant rates for individual organs PMP in 2004 over national age‐standardized deaths per cause (2004 WHO data, Global Burden of Disease causes W108, W150, W152, W158) (4,9).…”

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Countries' Donation Performance in Perspective: Time for More Accurate Comparative Methodologies

Roels

Cohen

Gachet

2007

American Journal of Transplantation

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Evolution of Deceased Organ Donation Activity Versus Efficiency Over a 15-year Period: An International Comparison

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Comparing Countries’ Performance in Organ Donation: Time to Focus on Their Real Potential

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Donor education campaigns since the introduction of the Dutch organ donation act: increased cohesion between campaigns has paid off

Donor education campaigns since the introduction of the Dutch organ donation act: increased cohesion between campaigns has paid off

Countries' Donation Performance in Perspective: Time for More Accurate Comparative Methodologies

Evolution of Deceased Organ Donation Activity Versus Efficiency Over a 15-year Period: An International Comparison

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