Organ donation breakthrough collaborative: increasing organ donation through system redesign.

Organ donation saves lives. The use of organ transplantation to treat people with endstage organ failure is both medically effective and cost-effective and is now considered mainstream medicine. Although some persons cannot access this treatment for the same sociological, economic, and educational reasons that they cannot access other medical treatment, most cannot gain access because the necessary ingredient—the -

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