Open AccessUtilizing a Hospital-based Setting to Increase Organ Donor Registrations
Author(s) -
Michael Sutherland,
Gail Moloney,
Maddison Norton,
Alison C Bowling,
Iain Walker
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000002981
Subject(s) - organ donation , economic shortage , medicine , donation , family medicine , next of kin , health care , transplantation , population , tissue donation , surgery , linguistics , philosophy , environmental health , archaeology , government (linguistics) , economics , history , economic growth
Shortages of organs for transplantation are a concern for many countries. In Australia's "opt-in" system, people register their donation decision on the Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR) in their own time, yet <30% of the population have done so. Consent registrations are honored by the next-of-kin in 90% of cases, so increasing registrations will increase donated organs for transplantation. This study investigated the efficacy of offering an immediate registration opportunity in 2 hospitals, and the role that beliefs about organ donation play in registration behavior.