The Nephrocare project: referral, patient case-mix, follow-up and quality of renal care in Nordic renal centres.

Objective: Few studies have focused on patients actually attending renal units for their follow-up over time. This study reports the type of prevalent patients (case-mix) with a renal condition being followed up by 19 renal units in the Nordic countries during 1998-99.

Material And Methods: In a joint quality of care development project between the renal societies of the five Nordic countries and the unit for Quality of Health Systems, WHO (Europe), 19 renal units collected data on a random sample of their prevalent patients.

[Organ donations in Iceland 1992-2002].

Objective: To acquire information of organ donations and organ waiting lists in Iceland 1992-2002, the beginning of an organ procurement system.

Material And Methods: Records of all patients treated at the ICU at LSH in Fossvogur 1992-2002 were studied. Information of organ donations at other units and number on organ waiting lists was attained.

Application of human leukocyte antigen matching in the allocation of kidneys from cadaveric organ donors in the Nordic countries.

The Nordic organ exchange organization Scandiatransplant was founded in 1969. It covers a population of 24.41 million inhabitants in five countries: Denmark (5.