PMID: 11903381Mar 21, 2002Paper

Organ procurement organization (OPO), best practices

Clinical Transplantation
R R BollingerUNOS Council for Organ Availability. United Network for Organ Sharing

Abstract

There are currently 59 organ procurement organizations (OPOs) in the United States which serve their assigned geographic areas with variable productivity. Knowledge of organizational characteristics, programs and practices of more successful OPOs may be useful to increase the productivity of less successful OPOs. A preliminary survey of all OPO executive directors in the United States ascertained the most important beneficial and detrimental factors affecting their success. Site visits were then conducted at OPOs based on a selection process utilizing population size, geographic location, minority population, donors per million population and donors per thousand deaths among potential donors. All OPOs were categorized and the highest ranking OPOs in each of seven categories, based on 4 years of national data, were selected for the site visits. Regression analysis and correlation analysis using Pearson's product-moment correlation were performed. The survey to identify the important factors was returned by 47 (77%) of 61 OPOs existent in 1999. The most important beneficial factors identified by responding OPOs were adequate staffing and experience, allocation of responsibilities, hospital development and leadership. The most imp...Continue Reading

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