Organ transplantation is the most consolidated cost-effective treatment for several end-disease. The success of the transplantation has been influenced by various factors such as the coordinated networks, national/regional transplant programmes, and the accessibility for transplants and organ exchanges.
The number of patients on waiting lists are increasing continually but the rates of the organ donor and hence transplantation probabilities have remained unchanged.
From the Council of Europe Transplant Newsletter 2009 data and previous literature, it is well known that the donation and transplant activities have different sizes in the Member States of the European Union, as well as that some programmes are not available in all countries. In this situation many patients can not benefit every existing transplant programmes.
Therefore, define the best common practice and guidelines is an important development in this field. Moreover, the design of a common model of reference on the organizational structure of the transplant system at national and local level might become a pivotal tool for all countries to improve their home system.
The differences of the transplant programmes and the coordination systems could be a reason to different accessibility and the different outcome of the transplantation. The health care professionals and organizations are committed to find the most effective system and guidelines of the transplantation hereby make a support to the policy makers, which finally could improve the outcome of the transplanted patients.
The COORENOR project participants has started their collaborative work to fulfil the above mentioned objectives.
Laymen's brochure
COORENOR is a three-year project co-funded by the Public Health Programme of the European Commission and the project Associated Partner. COORENOR Project aims to establish a Coordinated Network between national programs existing in the field of organ transplantation, taking into account some major issues such as cadaveric donation, living donation and organ exchange. Read more in the laymen's brochure
