Factors influencing the family consent rate for organ donation in the UK
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The refusal rate for organ donation in the UK is 42%, among the highest in Europe. We extracted data on every family approach for donation in UK ICUs or Emergency Departments between 1st April 2012 and 30th September 2013, and performed multiple logistic regression to identify modifiable factors associated with consent. Complete data were available for 4703 of 4899 approaches during the study period. Consent for donation after brain death was 68.9%, and for donation after circulatory death 56.5% (p Copyright © 2016 The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
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2016
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Organ donation, Bioethical issues
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Hulme, W., Allen, J., Manara, A.R., Murphy, P.G., Gardiner, D.C. and Poppitt, E. (2016) 'Factors influencing the family consent rate for organ donation in the UK', Anaesthesia, 71(9), pp. 1053-1063. doi: 10.1111/anae.13535.
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Available to read on publisher's website here: https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.13535.