Health Professionals Reference Section

• Educational Offerings
• Badge Backers
• HRSA Organ Donation and Transplantation Breakthrough Collaborative Initiatives
• Sensitive Terminology
• Organ Donation Q and A (PDF)
• Organ and Tissue Donation Differences
• 2005 National Survey of Organ and Tissue Donation Attitudes and Behaviors (OrganDonor.gov)
• UNOS Fact Sheets
  • How the Transplant System Works: Matching Donors and Recipients
  • Timeline of Key Events in U.S. Transplantation and UNOS History
  • UNOS Facts and Figures
  • Donor Designation (First Person Consent) Status by State
  • Monitoring Compliance with Organ Transplant Policy in the United States

Journal Articles

• New England Journal of Medicine
  • Care of the Potential Organ Donor
  • Estimating the Number of Potential Organ Donors in the United States
• Health Care Executive: Increasing Organ Donation and Procurement (PDF)
• Joint Commission White Paper: Health Care at the Crossroads (PDF)

Regulations and Standards

• CMS Conditions of Participation
• Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) Hospital Development Standards
• HIPAA Federal Register Vol. 65, No. 250, 164.512h: "Standard: Uses and disclosures for cadaveric organ, eye or tissue donation purpose. A covered entity may use or disclose protected health information to organ procurement organizations or other entities engaged in the procurement, banking or transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissue for the purpose of facilitating organ, eye or tissue donation and transplantation."
• Uniform Determination of Death Act
  • Uniform Determination of Death Act 1980 (Federal)
  • Wisconsin Law: 146.71 Determination of death. An individual who has sustained either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death shall be made in accordance with accepted medical standards. History: 1981 c. 134. 

• State Legislation

  • Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (PDF)
  • Donate Life Wisconsin License Plate Legislation (PDF)
  • Coroners/Medical Examiner Legislation (PDF)
  • Anatomical Gift Legislation (PDF)

Douglas T. Miller Symposium Resources

• Promoting Organ Donation – A Winning Experience (ppt)
• Forward Focus - Excellence in Organ Donation (ppt)
• The Journey of Continuous Quality Improvement – Aspirus Wausau Hospital (ppt)
• The Journey of Continuous Quality Improvement – Mercy Medical Center (ppt)
• The Journey of Continuous Quality Improvement – St. Vincent Hospital (ppt)
• Cultivate a Culture for Achieving Results – Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center (ppt)
• Cultivate a Culture for Achieving Results – Marquette General Hospital (ppt)
• Commitment, Coordination, Cooperation: Nurse and Physician Resource Teams – MCHS Eau Claire (ppt)
• Commitment, Coordination, Cooperation: Nurse and Physician Resource Teams – Ministry St. Joseph’s Hospital (ppt)
• Reduce Your Anxiety: Standardizing Donor Processes – Theda Clark Medical Center (ppt)
• Reduce Your Anxiety: Standardizing Donor Processes – UW Health (ppt)
• First Person Authorization, Learning from Our Own Experience (ppt)
• Ventilator Auto-Triggering and Brain Death (ppt)
• Attempted DCDs and the Operating Room (ppt)
• Transplant Waiting List (ppt)
• Brain Death Declaration (ppt)
• Donation Beyond Organ Donation: How Tissue Donation and Research Generate Legacies (ppt)
• How Decisions Are Made (ppt)
• Forward Focus Action Planning (ppt)
• Evolution of Donation Process and Planning (ppt)
• Engaging Communities to Fill the Registry, "Every Opportunity is a Golden Opportunity" (ppt)
• Crisis Communication (ppt)
• Packers-Bears Donor Family-Recipient Story (ppt)

Gift of Life Video Series

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