Abstract

This Forum was initiated by Transplant Québec and cohosted by the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Program partnered with multiple national and international donation and transplantation organizations. Seven domains were identified by the scientific committee' and domain working groups identified specific topics for recommendations: Baseline Ethical Principles, Legal Foundations, Consent Model and Emerging Legal Issues, Donation System Architecture, Living Donation, Tissue Donation, and Research and Innovation Systems and Emerging Issues. Patient, family, and donor partners were integrated into every stage of the planning and execution of the Forum. Sixty-one participants from 13 countries contributed to recommendation generation. Topic identification and recommendation consensus was completed over a series of virtual meetings from March to September 2021. Consensus was achieved by applying the nominal group technique informed by literature reviews performed by participants. Recommendations were presented at a hybrid in-person and virtual forum in Montreal, Canada, in October 2021. Ninety-four recommendations (9-33 per domain) and an ethical framework for evaluating new policies were developed during the Forum proceedings. The accompanying articles include the recommendations from each domain and justifications that link the consensus to existing literature and ethical or legal concepts. Although the recommendations could not account for the vast global diversity of populations, healthcare infrastructure, and resources available to OTDT systems, they were written to be as widely applicable as possible.

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