Organ failure is often known as the final step before death in critically ill patients. One of the main causes of organ failure is sepsis, which is the body's severe response to infections. There is now a specific assessment known as the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, otherwise known as SOFA, to identify early organ failure, assign a score, and base interventions on these scores (Sakr et al., 2012). Organ failure can also occur due to a transplanted organ. It is known that 7% of human transplants fail within one year and that within three years 17% of these transplants fail (Tushla, 2016). An organization known as the United Network for Organ Sharing, an independent, non-profit organization, was created on March 21, 1984 (United Network for Organ Sharing, 2015). This network is available to all hospitals in an effort to match donors to recipients in a timely manner. In the 1950s, if an organ couldn't be used in a hospital, there was no way of knowing whether it could be used elsewhere. In this period, it is not that there were not enough donors, but rather a problem of finding the right matches in time. The United Network for Organ Sharing initially began with all recipients on paper records, as they communicated through the
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