The Combination of an Online Organ and Tissue Registry With a Public Education Campaign Can Increase the Number of Organs Available for Transplantation
| Autor: | Eric J. Ley, Ali Salim, Darren Malinoski, Danielle Schulman, Sonia Navarro, Chirag S. Desai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection & Critical Care. 69:451-454 |
| ISSN: | 0022-5282 |
| Popis: | Because of ongoing advances in transplant immunology and surgical techniques, organ transplantation has become the standard of care for many patients with end-stage organ failure.1 The success of transplantation and the growing demand for organs are exemplified by a perpetually burgeoning waiting list. Currently, 103,446 people are on this waiting list, and one new patient is added every 10 minutes.2 Unfortunately, the growing demand for organ transplantation has not had a corresponding growth in organ availability. In 2008, only 27,963 transplants were performed, which is close to the 27,029 transplants performed in 2004.2 More than 7,000 patients die per year while awaiting transplantation related to the lack of organs and lack of growth in transplant operations.3 This ongoing shortage of transplantable organs continues to be a national crisis. Despite aggressive efforts such as the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative and the Organ Transplantation Breakthrough Collaborative,4 organ shortages continue to persist. The Institute of Medicine, in a 2006 report, offered a number of recommendations that could impact organ donation.5 Educating the public about organ donation and encouraging registration through donor cards, drivers' license, and donor registries were some of the actions recommended to help address the shortage of transplantable organs. In July 2006, California's Online Organ and Tissue Registry, Donate Life California, joined forces with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in an effort to compel Californians to share their organ donation wishes by registering online.6 With this alliance, an individual could sign up with the registry when applying for a driver license or identity card through the California DMV or by signing up online. This campaign involved public and media education regarding the organ donor shortage. We set out to analyze whether this campaign had a beneficial effect on organ donor demographics in a catchment area covered by one of the California's organ procurement organizations (OPO). If improvement in organ donor demographics is documented, then similar campaigns can be replicated throughout the United States to improve the growing organ donor shortage. |
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