The national organ donation and transplantation program in Greece: gap analysis and recommendations for change
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Abstract
Greece has fallen far behind many comparable European countries in the field of organ donation and transplantation and has made little progress over the past decade. Despite efforts to improve its organ donation and transplantation program, systemic problems persist. In 2019, the Onassis Foundation commissioned a report to be prepared by the London School of Economics and Political Science that focused on the state of the Greek organ donation and transplantation program and proposed recommendations for its improvement. In this paper, we present our analysis of the Greek organ donation and transplantation program together with an overview of our specific recommendations. The analysis of the Greek program was undertaken in an iterative manner using a conceptual framework of best practices developed specifically for this project. Our findings were further developed via an iterative process with information provided by key Greek stakeholders and comparisons with case studies that featured successful donation and transplantation programs in Croatia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Because of their overall complexity, we used a systems-level approach to generate comprehensive and far-reaching recommendations to address the difficulties currently experienced by the Greek organ donation and transplantation program.
Date Issued
2023-05-25
Date Acceptance
2023-04-14
Citation
Transplant International, 2023, 36
ISSN
0934-0874
Publisher
Frontiers Media S.A.
Journal / Book Title
Transplant International
Volume
36
Copyright Statement
© 2023 Johnston-Webber, Prionas, Wharton, Streit, Mah, Boletis, Mossialos and Papalois. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37305340
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Subjects
CRISIS
Greece
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
organ donation
organ transplantation
Science & Technology
Surgery
transplant system
Transplantation
transplantation policy
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Switzerland
Article Number
11013
Date Publish Online
2023-05-25