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Racial Equity in Family Approach for Patients Medically Suitable for Deceased Organ Donation*
Authors' conclusion
Findings indicate racial equity in OPO family approach rates among patients who were medically suitable for organ donation.
Study context
- Population
- Hospitalised patients on mechanical ventilation referred to Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) as potential donors, 10 US OPOs, 2018–202231,253 medically suitable
- Participants
- 255,429 patients
- Exposure
- Family approach for donation by race/ethnicity
- Outcome
- Family approach rate, medically suitable cases
Methodological detailsdata collected prospectively by OPOs, multicentre (10 OPOs)
- Data collected prospectively by OPOs
- Multicentre (10 OPOs)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Each group vs whiteOdds ratio (95% CI)
Black
1.09(0.95–1.24)
Asian
1.23(0.95–1.60)
- Overall family approach rate (n = 29,315)
- 94%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Screened-in for further evaluation
Medically suitable among screened-in
Donor registration status, medically suitable · highly variable by race/ethnicity
- Screened-in for further evaluation — Overall screened-in
- 138,622 (54%)
- Medically suitable among screened-in — Overall medically suitable
- 31,253 (23%)
- Donor registration status, medically suitable — Overall
- 37%
Family approach by death pathway
- Circulatory death
- 95%
- Brain death
- 97%
- Minimal differences by race/ethnicity within death pathways
Parts of this Brief are withheld: the automatic checks could not confirm them against the abstract.
Original publication
Racial Equity in Family Approach for Patients Medically Suitable for Deceased Organ Donation*. Crit Care Med. Published 16 September 2024. doi:10.
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