[Table, Key clinical issues and review questions]. - Organ Donation for Transplantation

Key clinical Issues	Review questions
Structures and processes including timing for referral and criteria for consideration for identifying potential DBD and DCD donors Structures and processes for obtaining consent for cadaveric organ donation for transplantation, including the optimum timing for approaching the families about consent. Coordination of the care pathway for conversion of potential donors to actual donors. Competencies of healthcare professionals involved in the activities described above.	*Review question 1:* What structures and processes including timing for referral and criteria for consideration are appropriate and effective for identifying potential DBD and DCD donors? *Review question 2:* What structures and processes are appropriate and effective for obtaining consent from families, relatives and legal guardians of potential DBD and DCD donors? *Review question 3:* When is the optimal time for approaching the families, relatives and legal guardians of potential DBD and DCD donors for consent? *Review question 4:* How the care pathway of deceased organ donation should be coordinated to improve potential donors giving consent? *Review question 5:* What key skills and competencies are important for healthcare professionals to improve the structures and processes for identifying potential DBD and DCD; to improve structures and processes for obtaining consent; and to effectively coordinate the care pathway from identification to obtaining consent?

Key clinical Issues

Review questions

Structures and processes including timing for referral and criteria for consideration for identifying potential DBD and DCD donors
Structures and processes for obtaining consent for cadaveric organ donation for transplantation, including the optimum timing for approaching the families about consent.
Coordination of the care pathway for conversion of potential donors to actual donors.
Competencies of healthcare professionals involved in the activities described above.

Review question 1:
What structures and processes including timing for referral and criteria for consideration are appropriate and effective for identifying potential DBD and DCD donors?

Review question 2:
What structures and processes are appropriate and effective for obtaining consent from families, relatives and legal guardians of potential DBD and DCD donors?

Review question 3:
When is the optimal time for approaching the families, relatives and legal guardians of potential DBD and DCD donors for consent?

Review question 4:
How the care pathway of deceased organ donation should be coordinated to improve potential donors giving consent?

Review question 5:
What key skills and competencies are important for healthcare professionals to improve the structures and processes for identifying potential DBD and DCD; to improve structures and processes for obtaining consent; and to effectively coordinate the care pathway from identification to obtaining consent?

From: Appendix B, How this guideline was developed

Cover of Organ Donation for Transplantation

Organ Donation for Transplantation: Improving Donor Identification and Consent Rates for Deceased Organ Donation.

NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 135.

Centre for Clinical Practice at NICE (UK).

Manchester: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (UK); 2011 Dec.

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