Donor management using a specialized donor care facility is associated with higher organ utilization from drug overdose donors

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Drug overdoses have tripled in the United States over the last two decades. With the increasing demand for donor organs, one potential consequence of the opioid epidemic may be an increase in suitable donor organs. Unfortunately, organs from donors dying of drug overdose have poorer utilization rates than other groups of brain-dead donors, largely due to physician and recipient concerns about viral disease transmission. During the study period of 2011 to 2016, drug overdose donors (DODs) account for an increasingly greater proportion of the national donor pool. We show that a novel model of donor care, known as specialized donor care facility (SDCF), is associated with an increase in organ utilization from DODs compared to the conventional model of hospital-based donor care. This is likely related to the close relationship of the SDCF with the transplant centers, leading to improved communication and highly efficient donor care.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Clinical transplantation - 35(2021), 3 vom: 16. März, Seite e14178

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Frye, Christian Corbin [VerfasserIn]
Gauthier, Jason M [VerfasserIn]
Bery, Amit [VerfasserIn]
Gerull, William D [VerfasserIn]
Morkan, Deniz B [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jingxia [VerfasserIn]
Shea Harrison, M [VerfasserIn]
Terada, Yuriko [VerfasserIn]
Van Zanden, Judith E [VerfasserIn]
Marklin, Gary F [VerfasserIn]
Pasque, Michael K [VerfasserIn]
Nava, Ruben G [VerfasserIn]
Meyers, Bryan F [VerfasserIn]
Patterson, Alexander G [VerfasserIn]
Kozower, Benjamin D [VerfasserIn]
Hachem, Ramsey [VerfasserIn]
Byers, Derek [VerfasserIn]
Witt, Chad [VerfasserIn]
Kulkarni, Hrishikesh [VerfasserIn]
Kreisel, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Puri, Varun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Analgesics, Opioid
Donors and donation
Journal Article
Organ allocation
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 01.07.2021

Date Revised 02.03.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ctr.14178

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318405423