Glossary Term

Death Record Review

DRR

Death Record Review

An assessment of the medical record of a deceased patient to evaluate missed potential for organ donation. §482.45(a)(5) Hospitals must cooperate with the OPOs, tissue banks and eye banks in regularly or periodically reviewing death records. This means that the hospital must develop policies and procedures which permit the OPO, tissue bank, and eye bank access to death record information that will allow the OPO, tissue bank and eye bank to assess the hospital’s donor potential, assure that all deaths or imminent deaths are being referred to the OPO in a timely manner, and identify areas where the hospital, OPO, tissue bank and eye bank staff performance might be improved.
(Alliance Terminology & Data Resources May 2021)