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- Title
Higher organ donation consent rates by relatives of potential uncontrolled donors versus potential controlled donors after death.
- Authors
Wind, Jentina; van Mook, Walther N K A; Willems, Monique E C; van Heurn, L W Ernest
- Abstract
Refusal to consent to organ donation is an important cause of the persisting gap between the number of potential organ donors and effectuated donors. In the Netherlands, organ donors include both uncontrolled donors: donors who die unexpectedly after cardiac death (DCD), after failed resuscitation and donors in whom death can be expected and donors after brain death, and controlled DCD donors: those who die after the withdrawal of treatment. Different donor type implies a different setting in which relatives are requested to consent to organ donation. It is unknown whether the setting influences the eventual decision for donation or not. Therefore, we compared the consent rate in potential donors who died unexpectedly (UD group) and in whom death was expected.
- Publication
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association, 2012, Vol 27, Issue 11, p4219
- ISSN
1460-2385
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/ndt/gfs300