ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM THE POTENTIAL DONOR AUDIT

POTENTIAL DONOR AUDIT 12-MONTH SUMMARY REPORT 1 APRIL 2003 – 31 MARCH 2004 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Fully validated data from the Potential Donor Audit (PDA) for the first financial year are now available. The dataset used to obtain the results for this report comprises data for all audited patient deaths in UK Intensive Care Units (ICUs) over the period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004, as recorded on the National Transplant Database (NTxD). It is based on PDA forms received by UK Transplant on or before 6 August 2004, input onto the NTxD and validated. This report summarises the main findings of the PDA over the 12-month period. 1.2 The results described in this report should be regarded with some caution for two reasons. First, some of the subgroup analyses are based on relatively small numbers of individuals and as a consequence some of the percentages quoted suffer from a lack of precision. Second, UK Transplant were still receiving completed PDA forms for the period from January to March 2004 at the time of analysis and so the results summarised in this report are subject to change. Further note that this report refers to potential heartbeating (HB) donors defined as patients for whom death was diagnosed following brain stem tests and who had no absolute medical contraindications to HB solid organ donation. 2 SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS 2.1 In the 12-month period from 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004, 341 ICUs in 284 different hospitals in the UK ...