The Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative: has it made a difference?

What Did We Really Learn From the Collaborative? Is It In Our Best Interest to Use “Every Organ Every Time” in Kidney Transplantation?

“…In the early years, it substantially influenced the streamlining of the organ procurement system by identifying best practice among highachieving healthcare facilities in the field of organ donation and retrieval and making them standard for all OPOs. The Donor type 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 All 14,416 14,256 14,010 14,149 14,504 14,631 14,207 14,400 14,750 14,497 14,154 13,285 12,821 Deceased 8596 8268 8143 8126 7943 8022 7989 8085 8017 7593 7150 6457 6190 Living 5820 5988 5867 6023 6561 6609 6218 6315 6733 6904 7004 6828 6631 Retrieved from https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/data/view-data-reports/national-data/# ODBC also focused on realizing the potential to increase donation and procurement by making use of ECD and DCD donors [2,3,8,11]. It also helped make significant progress in increasing the conversion rates of potential donors, and had an immediate positive impact on the number of organs recovered and transplanted [3].…”

“…Evaluation of potential donors between the years 1997 and 1999 showed an overall conversion rate (the number of actual donors divided by the number of potential donors) of only 42 % [9]. There was an urgent need to address the poor donor conversion rate and to attempt to recover the sizeable pool of potentially transplantable organs through improved collaboration among stakeholders, This article is part of the Topical Collection on Kidney Transplantation including Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) personnel, professional staff caring for a potential donor, and donor families within the designated donation service areas (DSAs) [4,7,8,10,11].…”

Communicating Effectively About Organ Donation

“…2 Little has changed in the past decade, with recent reports from two geographically distinct OPOs placing authorization rates at 58%. 3,4 The importance of this issue is memorialized in the numerous legislative attempts to improve the request process since the 1980s 2, 5–9 and the Institute of Medicine report emphasizing the need to improve the quality of the authorization process and the success of donation requests. 10 …”

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“…Different approaches, focusing on specific factors (attitudes toward organ donation, presumed consent, financial incentives, and education) [1][2][3][4][5][6] or multilevel factors, 7 and different campaigns, organizational models, and national initiatives have been assessed [8][9][10][11][12][13] to analyze organ, and tissue donor shortages, and propose potential solutions to optimize donation processes, and outcomes. Guidelines 14 and resolutions 15 adopted by the World Health Organization, as well as conventions, directives, and action plans issued by the Council of Europe and the European Union, have called for balanced and regulated donation and transplantation activities across the European Union 16 and the world.…”