Journal Article

Quality improvement tools to manage deceased organ donation processes: A scoping review protocol

Hornby, Laura, Arora, Samantha, Ross-White, Amanda, Giorno, Luciana, Rochon, Andrea, Silva, Amina, Lotherington, Ken, Latifi, Marzieh, Silva e Silva, Vanessa, Dhanani, Sonny, Luctkar-Flude, Marian, Wilson, Lindsay

2022

Overview

To collate and summarize the literature on what quality improvement tools have been developed on safety of deceased organ donation processes for donation after circulatory determination of death and neurological determination of death. The increasing organ shortage requires that organ donation organizations take preventive measures to improve their processes and maximize organ donation opportunities. Quality improvement tools can be used to facilitate daily activities, prevent errors and enhance organ donation processes. Still, there is a paucity of comprehensive evidence around the use of these strategies to manage organ donation processes. Scoping review methodology according to the Joanna Briggs Institute framework. We will search MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Web of Science – Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index and Academic Search Complete. We will also conduct a web search of Google and request unpublished material (e.g., institutional protocols and quality improvement tools) from key stakeholders in the organ donation field worldwide and we will consider reports dated after 2000. Two independent reviewers will screen the literature against the inclusion criteria, extract data according to the data extraction tool and perform descriptive analysis. Results will be assembled, summarized and presented through tabular form accompanied by a narrative summary to answer the review question. Results from this scoping review will be used to develop and update quality improvement tools in decease organ donation, will be used to guide the second phase of a study aiming at developing a set of quality improvement tools to decease organ donation process, as well as these results can be used to inform future policy development in deceased organ donation.

• Publisher: Elsevier Ltd,Elsevier Limited
• Subject: Activities of daily living / Biological organs / Blood & organ donations / Check Lists / Clinical trials / Death / Death & dying / Delivery of Health Care / Development policy / Donations / Donors / Errors / Ethnography / Evidence / Grounded Theory / Guidelines / Health Activities / Humans / Indexes / Information Seeking / Information Sources / Literary criticism / Meta Analysis / Organ donation / Organ Transplantation / Patient safety / Phenomenology / Policy making / Prevention programs / Qualitative / Quality Improvement / Quality improvement tools / Quality management / Quality of care / Quantitative / Randomized Controlled Trials / Review / Safety / Scoping Reviews As Topic / Search Strategies / Social sciences / Tissue and organ donation procurement / Tissue and Organ Procurement / Total Quality Management / Worksheets