Assessment of Collaborative Requesting

Completed

• Conditions: Relatives of brain stem dead patients; Organ donation - collaborative requesting; Not Applicable; Consent to organ donation

• Registration Number: ISRCTN01169903
• Lead Sponsor: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-07-16
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 946

Inclusion Criteria

Relatives of patients in whom death has been determined using brain stem death criteria

Exclusion Criteria

1. Relatives who do not understand written or verbal infromation for whom an interpreter is not available
2. Relatives who decline discussion on organ donation

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of relatives refusing consent for organ donation.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Number of patients in whom the family consent to beating heart organ donation<br>2. Solid organs retrieved by type<br>3. Solid organs transplanted by type<br>4. Tissues retrieved by type<br>5. Consent rates by predefined subgroup (relative relationship to donor; ethnic group and sex of donor and next of kin; clinician seniority and sex; sex of donor transplant co-ordinator)