End-Of-Life Conversations With Families Of Potential Donors: Leading Practices In Offering The Opportunity For Organ Donation

This work was funded by Canadian Blood Services through a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the federal, provincial or territorial governments. Canadian Blood Services is a national, not-for-profit charitable organization that manages the supply of blood and blood products in all provinces and territories in Canada (with the exception of Quebec) and oversees the OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network Canadian Blood Services also received a mandate in 2008 for national activities related to organ and tissue donation and transplantation (OTDT), which incudes: development of leading practices, public awareness and education, system performance measurement and establishing transplant patient registries. Canadian Blood Services is not responsible for the management or funding of any Canadian Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) or Transplant Programs. Canadian Blood Services receives its funding from the provincial and territorial Ministries of Health and the federal government through Health Canada.Supplemental digital content (SDC) is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text and links to the digital files are provided in the HTML text of this article on the journal's Web site (www.transplantjournal.com).Correspondence: Sam D. Shemie, MD, Montreal Children's Hospital Montreal, PQ Canada. (sam.shemie@mcgill.ca).