This study was funded by the Department of Human Services through LIFEGift, the Victorian Organ Donation Service.

We would like to thank the LIFEGift donor coordinators (Samantha Brean, Bernadine Dwyer, Nina Klein, Violet Marion, Clare Wensor, Kim Moyes) and participating hospitals, panel intensivists and organ donation research nurses: Alfred Hospital (Dr Andrew Davies, Dr Tim Leong, Anne-Marie McKenna, Linda Dorset); Austin Hospital (Kim O'Sullivan, Kelli Mitchener, Kate Bailey); Box Hill Hospital (Dr David Ernest); Dandenong Hospital (Dr Stephen Bernard); Frankston Hospital (Dr John Botha, Dr Ramesh Nagappan); Geelong Hospital (Dr David Green, Dr Peter Stow, Jill Mann); Monash Medical Centre (Dr Craig Walker, Mark Fielding, Angela Gibcus); Northern Hospital (Dr Graeme Duke, Dr John Green); Royal Children's Hospital (Dr Rob Henning, Dr Johnny Millar, Carmel Delzoppo); Royal Melbourne Hospital (Dr Shane Townsend, Lianne Pressnell, Melissa Bantick, Julie Clark); St Vincent's Hospital (Dr Bill Kelly, Karen Kicker, Jenny Holmes, Janine Towner); Western Hospital (Dr John Mulder, Dr Satyajit Koottayi, Dr Adrian Hall, Allan Park, Sharon Ward, Yasna Lara).

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