Preliminary Report about the Quality System in Organ Donation in Europe Hospitals Manyalich M 1, Guasch X 1, Maio R 2, Gomez MP 1, Paez G 3, Texeira L 3. and ODEQUS Consortium 1 DTI Foundation, Barcelona,Spain 2 Autoridae para os Serviços de Sangue e Transplantaçao (ASST) 3 Transplant Procurement Management (TPM)

BACKGROUND ODEQUS is an European Project Co- financed by the European Agency for Health and consumers. 12 European Partners. Project Objective: Identify the best practices in the three different types of organ donation DBD, DCD and LD.

OBJECTIVE OF THE SURVEY To know what the European Hospitals are doing concerning Quality in the Donation Process.

Material and Methods Partner Meetings Definition of the Survey

FRANCE6 ITALY6 POLAND35 PORTUGAL5 ROMANIA7 SPAIN12 GERMANY2 ENGLAND7 SWEDEN4 CROATIA5 AUSTRIA0 Surveys received: 89

Results regarding Quality System

Quality Objectives Number Actual DBD % Family consent Organs Recovered Quality Plan objectives/s which refer to the organ donation process

QUALITY MEASUREMENT IN ORGAN DONATION PROCESS 53.8% Brain death Self-assessment survey Quality indicators Audits 78,4% 64,9% 54,1%

Quality in Organ donation part of the Quality program promoted by the National Transplant Organization 63,8 %

% OF HOSPITALS WITH ORGAN DONATION IN QUALITY PLAN

CONCLUSIONS I 1.Almost all hospitals have a Quality Department (80,9%) and Quality Plan (78,2%) 2. 41,4% of the hospitals referred Organ donation in the Quality Plan and The % is higher in transplant hospitals. 3.71,8% of the hospitals referred at least 3 organ donation objectives in the Quality Plan. (Number Actual DBD, % Family consent and Organs Recovered ) 4. The self assessment survey is the tool more used to measure organ donation process 5. 48,2% of the hospital don’t used quality indicators in organ donation.

CONCLUSIONS II 6. Structural and outcome indicators are the most frequently used. 7. Quality in Organ donation is part of the Quality program promoted by the National Transplant Organization in 63,8 % of the hospitals ,9% of the hospitals have quality certification for organ donation.

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