The following issues of Progress Notes are available on the web:

Spring 1998

• Forum brings peers together to achieve donation excellence
• Gallup survey to look at public readiness to act
• Why do families refuse to donate organs?
• Canadian hospitals to implement best practices
• Partnership research, projects highlighted in transplant media
• Dr. Moritsugu: 'Pay attention to peri-donation environment'
• Program summary: Partnership/UHC Project Forum
• Living donation shows protocol variations; little donor potential being realized
• IHCs discuss donation comfort levels, obstacles

• Staff education, family support keys to organ donation protocol
• Canadian hospitals examine donation performance
• Hospital donation practices need review
• Family care key to increases in Maryland
• Understanding brain death critical to family consent
• Brochures help families understand brain death
• The Partnership's message is in the news
• Research findings published, presented
• Experts discuss Partnership's goals, work

• UHC/Partnership collaboration underway in five hospitals
• Canadian projects expand Partnership work
• Hospital role emphasized at federal hearings
• Congressional Field Hearing "How-To Guide" created
• "How-To Guide" available on web
• VOPA drives successful donation project
• Diverse experts make up hospital projects team
• C. Edward Schwartz joins Board of Directors
• Nebraska program increases donation rates
• Recent publications highlight Partnership's work

• UHC, Partnership join forces in nationwide donation project
• Pharmaceutical community funds ground-breaking donation project
• Hospitals can do more to increase organ donation
• Canadian project to institute best practices
• Many hospitals unaware of poor donation rates
• Communication on brain death helps families cope
• On the Web: http://www.transweb.org/partnership
• Harvard team works to increase organ donation

• Letter from The Partnership
• Baltimore hospitals join in organ donation project
• Donor/Non-Donor findings presented to DOT
• MRR diagnostic tool crosses national border
• Milbank article looks at financial incentives
• International collaboration produces Donor Action
• Donor Quilt: Patchwork of memories, miracles
• Public attitudes have implications for OPOs
• Los Angeles reviews hospital donor potential

• Letter from the Partnership: Joining Forces-A Meeting of Transplant Leaders to Increase Organ Donation
• A Strategic Overview of Donation and Transplantation
• Institutions Play and Important Role in Increasing Organ Donation
• The Epidemiology of Donor Potential
• The Dynamics of Family Consent: An In-Depth Study of Donor and Non-Donor Families
• Survey Confirms Transplantation as an Institutional Priority
• Hospital-Based Donation System Achieves Dramatic Increases in Spain
• Pharma Industry Calls for Research Initiatives, Hospital Commitment

• Letter from the Partnership: "Action Research," Collaboration Needed to Increase Organ Donation
• Transplant Hospital commits to Organ Donation
• Ottley Joins Board of Directors
• Donor Estimation Methodology Gets High Marks
• Study to Highlight Living Donor Potential
• Donor Father Reflects on the Needs of Families in Crisis
• Unheard Voices: Non-Donor Families Speak About Their Experiences with Donation