Telephone requests for donation: concerns expressed by families and the impact of the donor registry.
Prog Transplant
; 23(1): 92-8, 2013 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-23448828
ABSTRACT
CONTEXT The request process for eye and tissue donation is different from the process that families of organ donors experience, but the research into eye/tissue-only decision making has been sparse. OBJECTIVE:
To determine the concerns of families approached over the phone for eye/tissue donations and to study the impact of the donor registry on those decisions. DESIGN, SETTING ANDPARTICIPANTS:
Written instrument filled out by family services coordinators while speaking with families about donation via phone in the San Diego, California, area during 2011.Main Outcome Measures-Responses marked on a 21-item instrument, contextual notes, donor registrations, and decisions made.RESULTS:
With a 60% refusal rate, the most common reasons reported for declining donation are that the potential donor said during life he/she did not want to donate (26%) or that the family, not knowing the potential donor's wishes, opted not to donate (13%). Other specific reasons for not donating were as follows wanting the body buried whole (8%), concerns about age and prior health (7%), and incompatibility with religion or culture (7%). Consenting families had different concerns worries about delays (36%), the potential donors' age and health (25%), how the body might look for viewing (14%), the amount of paperwork (10%), for-profit status of beneficiaries (9%), international distribution (8%), and family disunity (8%). Registry-related refusals weighted against donations of tissues from registered donors amounted to a deficit of 92 potential donations. When donations lost to faulty assumptions based on public education are added, the deficit increases to 122 lost donations.
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Assunto principal:
Doadores de Tecidos
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Obtenção de Tecidos e Órgãos
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Atitude Frente a Saúde
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Família
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Sistema de Registros
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Tomada de Decisões
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Bancos de Olhos
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Ano de publicação:
2013
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