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Appendix E HRSA's Extramural Research Program
Pages 299-304

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... Committee members had the opportunity to have discussions with the grantees and with the Division of Transplantation staff administering the program, as well as to review the published literature resulting from the extramural grants. OVERVIEW OF HRSA'S EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH PROGRAM The Division of Transplantation is charged with overseeing the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, and the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry and with developing and implementing national programs to increase the rates of organ, tissue, bone marrow, and blood donation.
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From page 300...
... Another study is evaluating how effectively peer educators in workplaces increase employees' intent to donate. Despite the diverse content among Social and Behavioral Interventions program grants, all such projects approved by HRSA must include several key components: · a consortium of researchers and transplantation organizations to bridge the gap between academic research and the service-oriented work of transplantation professionals; · a rigorous evaluation component; and · precise performance measures, such as an increase in consent rates for organ donation or an increase in declarations of intent to donate.
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From page 301...
... Between FY 2002 and 2004, HRSA provided roughly $9 million in grants for 11 projects that used clinical interventions to increase organ procurement (personal communication, J Perdue, HRSA, 2005)
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From page 302...
... Many of the interventions are inexpensive or even costless, and mechanisms that are already in place, such as HRSA's Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaboratives, can be used to disseminate the results. Hospital-based research also has some important constraints.
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From page 303...
... . The challenges involved in evaluating organ donation initiatives are similar to those faced in evaluating interventions for other public health issues, including youth smoking, underage drinking, obesity prevention, and diabetes prevention (NRC, IOM, 2003; IOM, 2005)
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From page 304...
... The committee believes that the Division of Transplantation should receive increased funding for its extramural program to support additional grants focused on innovative approaches to increasing organ donation rates (these projects, for example, examination of families' acceptance of firstperson consent, may or may not have a direct impact on donation) as well as projects whose findings are easy to translate into practice (for example, improvements to the request process and improvements to workplace registry programs)
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