Intended audience: recipient coordinator transplant program admin clinical services coord-csc

When an organ transplant recipient dies, information about their death is recorded in the system. This triggers various automated actions, depending on the phase of their journey(s) the recipient was in.

Journey Phase

Next Steps

Referral

The system prompts the Recipient Coordinator to update the referral decision with a final decision.

Assessment

The system prompts the Recipient Coordinator to:

  • Update the consultation decision with a final Decision of Consultation Cancelled and a Reason of Recipient Death.

  • Update the medical assessment decision with a final Decision of Assessment Cancelled and a Reason of Recipient Death.

Waitlist

The system automatically removes the recipient from the waitlists for all transplant journeys, with a reason of Patient Death.

If a journey is currently on Medical Hold, Serum Hold, or Suspension, the hold or suspension is end-dated with the waitlist removal date.

The recipient’s status is updated on the Canadian Transplant Registry (CTR) as Recipient Deceased.

Post-Transplant

The system prompts the Recipient Coordinator to create a follow-up record to log the recipient’s last known post-transplant status.

  • Recipient follow-up sets a default to Recipient Status of Recipient death.

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