Health Professionals Reference Section
Resources and Tools
- 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
Journal Articles
- New England Journal of Medicine
- 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.
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State Legislation