The median number of days between admission and discharge for living organ donation
Lower median lengths of stay suggest more effective care delivery.
Data availability:
to (calendar years)
Geographic coverage
All provinces/territories
Reporting level
National, Province/Territory
Calculation
The median number of days from admission to discharge for living organ donors.
Unit of analysis: Hospitalization
Hospitalizations for liver or kidney living donation in the Hospital Morbidity Database (HMDB) are included if all of the following are true:
- Hospitalization has CCI code 1.OA.58.WL-XX-J (liver) or one of 1.PC.58-^^-^^-J, 1.PC.89.^^ or 1.PC.91 (kidney)
- Hospitalization has ICD-10-CA code Z52.4, Z52.6, Z52.8 or Z52.9
- Age at discharge was 18 or older
The following were excluded. These exclusion criteria were chosen to rule out transplant recipients or deceased donors who were erroneously coded with a living donation CCI code:
- Intervention code is A (abandoned procedure)
- An intervention with a CCI code that does not begin with 2 or 3 occurred before the episode where the living donation intervention occurred; this identifies non-diagnostic interventions
- Admission category for the hospitalization is R, indicating a cadaveric donor abstract
- An intervention with CCI code 1.^^.85.^^ occurred in the same episode as the living donation intervention, indicating a transplantation procedure
- An intervention with CCI code 1.^^.58.^^-XX-K occurred in the same episode as the living donation intervention, indicating a deceased donation intervention
- The hospitalization has ICD-10-CA code N18, N08.3 or J96 with diagnosis type M, C, 1, 5, 6, W, X or Y, indicating a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease or respiratory failure
- Admission date or time or discharge date or time is unknown
Denominator
Not applicable
Numerator
Not applicable
Comments
Future reporting will use data from the new Canadian Organ Donation and Transplantation Data System (CanODT) once it is available.