Assessing Countries’ Deceased Organ Donation and Transplantation Performance
https://doi.org/10.47836/mjmhs.19.2.25
- Author:
Makmor Tumin
1
;
Khaled Tafran
2
;
Wan Ahmad Hafiz Wan Md Adnan
3
;
Ahmad Farid Osman
4
Author Information
1. Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2. Freelance Researcher, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
3. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
4. Department of Economics and Applied Statistics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Metrics, Organ donation, Patients, Waiting list
- From:Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences
2023;19(No.2):170-174
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Introduction: Donors per million population and transplantations per million population are standardized, widely
used indicators to assess and compare countries’ performance in organ donation and transplantation. This study aims
to investigate these two particular metrics of organ donation and transplantation performance, and to introduce a
new index, namely, ‘transplantations per patients on the waiting list’. Methods: Secondary analyses of data on 23
countries in 2016 were used to construct the transplantations per patients on the waiting list indicator for kidney,
liver, pancreas, heart, and lung transplantation, as well as for the transplantation of any of the five aforementioned
organs. Results: According to the transplantations per patients on the waiting list, the best-performing countries in
terms of organ donation and transplantation are Belarus for kidney transplantation, Finland for liver and pancreas
transplantation, Australia for heart transplantation, and France for lung transplantation. Considering all five organs
together, Sweden, Australia, Finland, Austria, and Poland were the top five best-performing countries, followed by
Spain in the sixth position. Conclusion: The deceased transplantations per patients on the waiting list can be an
alternative indicator to assess performance, along with the widely-used donors and transplantations per million population, but still has its limitations in certain scenarios.
- Full text:11.2023my1475.pdf
