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Differences Across ICUs in Organ Donation After Brain Death: A Nationwide Study of Relationship With Variation in End-of-life Decisions
In Brief
An observational study for Decision Making and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 12,072 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Variation in organ donation after brain death (DBD) per million population varies markedly between countries, within country regions, between and within intensive care units (ICU). These circumstances also apply to end-of-life decisions in the ICU. The investigators studied all ICU deaths in Sweden between 2014-2017 in ICUs that, as routine, registered treatment plan (no treatment limitation and/or treatment limitation) and DBD. The investigators hypothesized that ICUs with high proportion of treatment limitation (withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment) also had less proportion of DBD.