European Commission, Substances of Human Origin, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, Brussels, Belgium.
Department of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Transpl Int. 2020 Jun;33(6):603-611. doi: 10.1111/tri.13598. Epub 2020 Apr 12.
This article provides a high-level picture of the developments in organ transplantation in the European Union (EU) between 2009 and 2015. This was the period during which the European Commission and EU 28 member states developed an EU Action Plan on organ donation and transplantation. This plan was adopted by the European Commission in 2008, following calls for policy action to increase transplant numbers. It set out priority actions for member states and European Commission to address. This article describes the three main approaches used by the European Commission and National Competent Authorities to develop this action plan. We also present a quantitative comparison of 2015 and 2008 transplant data, based on the Newsletter Transplant by the Council of Europe (CoE) and the Spanish National Transplant Agency (ONT). This comparison shows contributions of different EU Member States, as well as of different donation and transplant programs to the overall increase of 4597 transplants per year (+16.4%). While another evaluation study of the action plan reported a strong positive impact of the action plan, it is beyond the remit of this publication to demonstrate a causal relationship between the EU Action Plan and the increase in number of organ transplants.
本文概述了 2009 年至 2015 年期间欧盟器官移植的发展情况。在此期间，欧盟委员会和欧盟 28 个成员国制定了欧盟器官捐献和移植行动计划。该计划是在 2008 年欧盟委员会应增加移植数量的政策行动呼吁后通过的。该计划为成员国和欧盟委员会确定了需要解决的优先行动。本文描述了欧盟委员会和国家主管当局为制定该行动计划而采用的三种主要方法。我们还根据欧洲委员会（CoE）的 Newsletter Transplant 和西班牙国家移植机构（ONT）的 2015 年和 2008 年移植数据进行了定量比较。这一比较显示了不同欧盟成员国以及不同的捐献和移植项目对每年增加 4597 例移植（+16.4%）的贡献。虽然对该行动计划的另一项评估研究报告称该行动计划具有很强的积极影响，但本文的目的不在于证明欧盟行动计划与器官移植数量的增加之间存在因果关系。
