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A Comparison of the Request Process and Outcomes in Adult and Pediatric Organ Donation.
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- Developing online communication training to request donation for vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA): improving performance to match new US organ donation targets.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Organ Donation Organization Architecture: Recommendations From an International Consensus Forum.Transplantation direct · 2023Article
- Ethical versus psychological issues in paediatric organ donation: an analysis of UK and Swiss practice.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2022Article
- Predictors of Deceased Organ Donation in the Pediatric Population.Pediatrics · 2021Article
- The impact of organ donation specialists on consent rate in challenging organ donation conversations.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2020Article
- A narrative review of family members' experience of organ donation request after brain death in the critical care setting.Intensive care medicine · 2019Review
- Regional Differences in Communication Process and Outcomes of Requests for Solid Organ Donation.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2017Article
- A Comparison of Request Process and Outcomes in Donation After Cardiac Death and Donation After Brain Death: Results From a National Study.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2017Article
- A novel approach to studying co-evolution of understanding and research: Family bereavement and the potential for organ donation as a case study.Health psychology openReview
- The development of a narrative describing the bereavement of families of potential organ donors: A systematic review.Health psychology openReview
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesAlthough existing studies suggest that factors affecting families' decisions regarding pediatric organ donation mirror those for adult patients, health professionals working in this area maintain that pediatric and adult decision-makers differ in significant ways. This study compared the request process, experiences, and authorization decisions between family decision-makers (FDMs) of adult and pediatric donors and nondonors.
methodsPerceptions of the donation request were collected via telephone interviews with 1601 FDMs approached by staff from 9 US organ procurement organizations (OPOs). Authorization regarding donation (ie, authorized/refused) was obtained from FDM reports and verified by using OPO records. Tests of association were used to estimate differences between FDMs of adult and pediatric patients. A logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify variables predicting FDM authorization.
resultsFDMs of children were significantly more likely to authorize donation than were FDMs of adults (89.7% vs 83.2%; χ(2) = 6.2, P = .01). Differences were found between pediatric and adult families' initial feelings toward donation, donation-related topics discussed, communication behaviors and techniques used, perceptions of the request, and receipt and preference of grief information. The likelihood of FDM authorization increased with the number of topics discussed and communication skills employed during requests. Authorization was not predicted by patient age (ie, adult versus pediatric).
conclusionsFDMs of children are willing to donate and experience no more psychological distress from the request for donation than do FDMs of adults. Communication emerged as a critical factor of family authorization, reinforcing its importance in requests for donation.
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