[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.