Vital role of medical examiners and coroners in organ transplantation.

Many people die owing to the shortage of donor organs. Medical examiners and coroners (MEs/Cs) play a vital role in making organs available for potential recipients. Medical examiners'/coroners' case data were collected using a structured confirmatory-recorded methodology for calendar years 2000-01 and were linked and analyzed with donor and transplant data from the United Network for Organ Sharing, predicting the nature and extent of the loss of donor organs.