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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-8-12
pubmed:abstractText
There has been no significant increase in the number of deceased organ donors in Canada over the past decade. Canada's donation and transplant system will be restructured with the formation of a new national organization to oversee activity in provincially governed donation and transplantation services. We review the current status of deceased organ donation, highlight issues contributing to the current stagnation in donation and identify changes that will enable success in a new Canadian system. Determining Canada's organ donation performance is difficult because the data required to calculate meaningful metrics of donation performance are not available. Canadians wait longer for transplantation than Americans, and Canada is falling further behind the United States primarily because of fewer donations after cardiac death. The ongoing divide between intergovernmental jurisdictional domains limits national initiatives to improve Canada's donation system. The success of a new national system will be enabled by uniform provincial legislation to ensure that all patients are offered the option to donate, commitment of resources to support organ donation by provincial governments, transparent reporting of comparable metrics of donation performance, establishment of processes to introduce and implement new initiatives and alterations to reimbursement models for organ donation and recovery.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1600-6143
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1580-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Deceased organ donation in Canada: an opportunity to heal a fractured system.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada. jgill@providencehealth.bc.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't