[Comprehensive range of services for general hospitals in the area of organ donation nearly doubles the number of donors in 2 years with a simultaneously economical process]. / Umfassendes Dienstleistungsangebot für Versorgungskrankenhäuser im Bereich Organspende verdoppelt nahezu die Spenderzahlen in zwei Jahren bei gleichzeitig ökonomischer Vorgehensweise.

To overcome the donor shortage, any potential donor resource must be detected. By establishing a professional service for peripheral hospitals, the numbers of donors available in small hospitals could be nearly doubled: 85% of all donors in our region come from nonuniversity hospitals. By using total quality management techniques, the time requirements for organ donation after confirmation of brain-death and given consent could be reduced to 6 h.

Organ procurement in Munich: financial and organizational aspects.

The Transplantation Center at the University of Munich is like all other German centers financially supported by the Insurance Companies via a non-profit organization (Kuratorium für Heimdialyse e.V.). The financial modalities are based on the arrangement that the Insurance Companies pay a certain amount for each transplantation to the non-profit organization. This institution, in cooperation with the University, uses this money to cover all extra expenses arising in the field of organ procurement as well as clinical transplantation (providing additional staff, equipment, etc). This model of a transplant center (ie, cooperation between University and non-University institutions) proved to be successful in the past 9 years. There was a steady increase of donor nephrectomies (200 donor kidneys in 1984) as well as kidney transplantations (171 transplantations in 1984).