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Scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical Department target life sciences
2009 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com) -- "Deficiencies in the donation process continue to contribute to the shortage of organs available for transplant. Continuous quality improvement of hospitals' donation processes is needed to identify and correct the problems," investigators in the United States report. "To test the Rapid Assessment of Hospital Procurement Barriers in Donation (RAPiD), a direct observation technique with a focused ethnographic strategy, for assessing hospitals' donation processes and identifying areas in need of continuous quality improvement interventions. A pre-post assessment of hospitals' barriers to patient identification and referral, and family consent to donation. Seventeen hospitals within the catchment area of a Northeastern organ procurement organization were assessed by using the RAPiD method. Hospital administrators, health care providers, and staff (N = 537) were interviewed as part of the assessments. Interventions, including on-site training and education, and the use of in-house coordinators, were specifically tailored to each hospital's unique set of barriers to donation. The interventions were delivered to the hospitals in the form of recommendations. The participating organ procurement organization was responsible for implementation of the interventions. The RAND hospital evaluations revealed gaps in respondents' knowledge of organ donation, brain death, and referral criteria; a reluctance to declare brain death; and a rocky relationship between the hospitals and the organ procurement organization," wrote L.A. Siminoff and colleagues, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical Department. The researchers concluded: "As a result of the interventions, 9 hospitals' environments for organ donation improved, 7 showed no change, and I was worse. (Progress in Transplantation. 2009;19:180-187)." Siminoff and colleagues published their study in Progress in Transplantation (Improving donation outcomes: hospital development and the Rapid Assessment of Hospital Procurement Barriers in Donation. Progress in Transplantation, 2009;19(2):180-187). For additional information, contact L.A. Siminoff, Virginia Commonwealth University, School Medical, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Health, POB 980149, 1112 E Clay St., Richmond, VA 23298, USA. The publisher of the journal Progress in Transplantation can be contacted at: Innovision Communications, 101 Columbia, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656, USA. Keywords: United States, Richmond, Life Sciences, Transplantation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical Department. This article was prepared by Life Science Weekly editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2009, Life Science Weekly via NewsRx.com.
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