TY - JOUR
T1 - Donor management using a specialized donor care facility is associated with higher organ utilization from drug overdose donors
AU - Frye, Christian Corbin
AU - Gauthier, Jason M.
AU - Bery, Amit
AU - Gerull, William D.
AU - Morkan, Deniz B.
AU - Liu, Jingxia
AU - Shea Harrison, M.
AU - Terada, Yuriko
AU - Van Zanden, Judith E.
AU - Marklin, Gary F.
AU - Pasque, Michael K.
AU - Nava, Ruben G.
AU - Meyers, Bryan F.
AU - Patterson, Alexander G.
AU - Kozower, Benjamin D.
AU - Hachem, Ramsey
AU - Byers, Derek
AU - Witt, Chad
AU - Kulkarni, Hrishikesh
AU - Kreisel, Daniel
AU - Puri, Varun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Drug overdoses have tripled in the United States over the last two decades. With the increasing demand for donor organs, one potential consequence of the opioid epidemic may be an increase in suitable donor organs. Unfortunately, organs from donors dying of drug overdose have poorer utilization rates than other groups of brain-dead donors, largely due to physician and recipient concerns about viral disease transmission. During the study period of 2011 to 2016, drug overdose donors (DODs) account for an increasingly greater proportion of the national donor pool. We show that a novel model of donor care, known as specialized donor care facility (SDCF), is associated with an increase in organ utilization from DODs compared to the conventional model of hospital-based donor care. This is likely related to the close relationship of the SDCF with the transplant centers, leading to improved communication and highly efficient donor care.
AB - Drug overdoses have tripled in the United States over the last two decades. With the increasing demand for donor organs, one potential consequence of the opioid epidemic may be an increase in suitable donor organs. Unfortunately, organs from donors dying of drug overdose have poorer utilization rates than other groups of brain-dead donors, largely due to physician and recipient concerns about viral disease transmission. During the study period of 2011 to 2016, drug overdose donors (DODs) account for an increasingly greater proportion of the national donor pool. We show that a novel model of donor care, known as specialized donor care facility (SDCF), is associated with an increase in organ utilization from DODs compared to the conventional model of hospital-based donor care. This is likely related to the close relationship of the SDCF with the transplant centers, leading to improved communication and highly efficient donor care.
KW - Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients
KW - donors and donation
KW - organ allocation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097508665&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/ctr.14178
DO - 10.1111/ctr.14178
M3 - Article
C2 - 33274521
AN - SCOPUS:85097508665
SN - 0902-0063
VL - 35
JO - Clinical Transplantation
JF - Clinical Transplantation
IS - 3
M1 - e14178
ER -