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name: organ-donation-assessment
description: Use when asked to administer, score, or explain an Organ Donation Assessment — medical suitability, organ function, and immunological compatibility for living and deceased donors — grounded in FormExamples/form-examples.
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# Organ Donation Assessment

Organ donation assessment evaluating potential organ donors (living and
deceased): medical suitability, organ function, immunological
compatibility, and ethical/consent requirements, using a donor risk
index and organ-specific suitability scoring.

## Scoring

**Instrument:** Donor Risk Index + Organ-Specific Suitability Scoring.

- **Eligibility:** Suitable (ideal donor) / Conditionally suitable
  (expanded criteria donor) / Unsuitable (absolute contraindications).
- **Risk level:** Low (ideal profile), Moderate (expanded criteria,
  manageable risk), High (marginal organ function, significant
  comorbidities), Critical (contraindicated, absolute exclusion
  criteria).

## What it covers

Demographics; donor type and registration; medical history; organ
function assessment; infectious disease screening; immunological
assessment; surgical assessment; psychological assessment (living
donor); ethical and legal requirements; and eligibility/allocation
decision.

## Common pitfalls

- **Treating living- and deceased-donor assessment as identical** — a
  living donor needs a dedicated psychological-readiness and surgical-
  risk-to-the-donor evaluation that has no equivalent in deceased
  donation; the two pathways diverge meaningfully beyond the shared
  organ-function/compatibility core.
- **Underweighting psychological assessment for living donors** —
  living donation carries real psychological as well as physical
  stakes; skipping or minimizing this section misses genuine risk to
  the donor's wellbeing.
- **Assuming "conditionally suitable" (expanded criteria) donors are
  automatically lower priority** — expanded-criteria donation is a
  deliberate, clinically managed pathway, not simply a fallback; the
  distinction is about additional evaluation needs, not automatic
  deprioritization.

## Learn more

- [FormExamples: organ-donation-assessment](https://github.com/FormExamples/form-examples/tree/main/forms/organ-donation-assessment) for the full implementation, clinical references, and worked examples.
- [[blood-donation-assessment]], [[bone-marrow-donation-assessment]] for related donation-eligibility assessments.