The continuing shortage of deceased donor organs for transplantation, and the limited
number of potential donors after brain death, has led to a resurgence of interest in donation …

Introduction Family members of critically ill patients suffer from high levels of anxiety and
depression in the ICU, and are at risk of developing post-ICU syndrome following ICU …

Organ transplantation saves and transforms lives. Failure to secure consent for organ
retrieval is widely regarded as the single most important obstacle to transplantation. A soft …

Patients with severe grades of life-threatening brain injury are commonly characterized as
having devastating brain injury (DBI), which we have defined as:'any neurological condition …

Purpose To elicit bereaved families' experiences of organ and tissue donation. A specific
objective was to determine families' perceptions of how their experiences influenced …

Conceptual frameworks are valuable resources that can be used to guide the planning,
evaluation, and development of health care services. However, there are currently no …

Between 2013 and 2019, there was an increase in the consent rate for organ donation in the
UK from 61% to 67%, but this remains lower than many European countries. Data on all …

Background The last decade, there have been many initiatives worldwide to increase the
number of organ donors. However, it is not clear which initiatives are most effective. The aim …

Background The donation rate (DR) per million population is not ideal for an efficiency
comparison of national deceased organ donation programs. The DR does not account for …

Solid organ transplantation saves and transforms lives. The original type of organ donation
from deceased patients was controlled donation after circulatory death, previously referred …