Open AccessEstimating the Number of Organ Donors in Australian Hospitals—Implications for Monitoring Organ Donation Practices
Author(s) -
David Pilcher,
Laura Gladkis,
Byron Arcia,
Michael Bailey,
David Cook,
Yael Cass,
Helen Opdam
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000000716
Subject(s) - medicine , organ donation , donation , intensive care unit , benchmarking , emergency medicine , logistic regression , audit , confidence interval , intensive care medicine , transplantation , business , management , marketing , economics , economic growth
The Australian DonateLife Audit captures information on all deaths which occur in emergency departments, intensive care units and in those recently discharged from intensive care unit. This information provides the opportunity to estimate the number of donors expected, given present consent rates and contemporary donation practices. This may then allow benchmarking of performance between hospitals and jurisdictions. Our aim was to develop a method to estimate the number of donors using data from the DonateLife Audit on the basis of baseline patient characteristics alone.