Predicting Expected Organ Donor Numbers in Australian Hospitals Outside of the Donate-Life Network Using the ANZICS Adult Patient Database

摘要

Background The majority of organ donations in Australia occur in the DonateLife Network of hospitals, but limited monitoring at other sites may allow donation opportunities to be missed. Our aim was to estimate expected donor numbers using routinely collected data from the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Adult Patient Database and determine whether unrecognized potential donors might exist in non-DonateLife hospitals.