Hospital Dramatically Increases Transplant Donations By Integrating Bereavement And Donor Services
Monday, August 3, 2009 - 21:35
in Psychology & Sociology
A UK hospital that combined its bereavement and donation services saw a forty-fold increase in tissue donations, such as corneas, in just five years. Between 2002 and 2007 the number of tissue donors rose from six to 246, while solid organ donation rates remained stable. The introduction of an automatic trigger to the regional transplant donor co-ordinators in 2007 resulted in 31 referrals and 11 multi-organ donors.
