title: System of Monitoring Potential Deceased Organ Donations in Over 200 Hospitals in Poland Using a Web Tool: Implementation and Structure.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In 2010 the formation of the Polish Hospitals Network of Organ Donation Coordinators, originated by Poltransplant, began. One of the goals of this project is to report all deaths in hospital ICUs in which a coordinator is posted. The aim of this strategy is to monitor donation potential, following the recruitment process of potential donors and indicating stages of that process that may be improved to increase effective recruitment. Until the end of 2014 all data were forwarded to Poltransplant as Excel files, but since January 1, 2015, reporting and data collection have been are performed using web tool www.koordynator.net.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the paper is to present the essentials in functioning principles, structure, and usage of the www.koordynator.net system, its technical construction, and to display good practices (know-how) tested by 1 country, for countries such as Poland, that contend with organ insufficiency.
  
  
  METHODS
  The application www.koordynator.net allows for remote addition of individual records with information about deceased patients in hospital ICUs, the forwarding of data about potential and actual organ donors, the generation of complete reports about deceased patients in each hospital monthly, and the introduction of historical data.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Introduction of a potential donation monitoring system in 209 hospitals with transplant coordinators increases the number of identified potential and effective actual donors due to self-assessment analysis. Eventually, the www.koordynator.net reporting system allowed for external evaluation by coordinators from other hospitals, regional coordinators, and Poltransplant. The system is a modern tool that improves and increases the quality system in the organ donation field (quality assurance program).
authors: Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Danek
authors: Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Protasiuk
authors: Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland; Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Mańkowski
authors: Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Brutkiewicz
authors: Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, District Hospital, Radom, Poland.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Trześniewski
authors: Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, District Hospital, Olsztyn, Poland.
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authors: Podlińska
authors: Department of General and Endocrine Surgery and Transplantation Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Milecka
authors: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Jonas
authors: Department of Surgical and Transplant Nursing, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland; Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Danielewicz
authors: Department of Surgical and Transplant Nursing, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland; Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: jczerwinski@poltransplant.pl.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Czerwiński
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D011044:Poland; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000458:organization & administration*