Research Article
Attitude of Healthcare Professionals: A Major Limiting Factor in Organ Donation from Brain-Dead Donors
Table 1
Physicians who participated in the survey.
| | LDR = 442 | HDR = 145 | |
| M/F | 182/259 | 83/62 | 0.001 |
| Age (yrs) | 44.3 ± 10.7 | 46.1 ± 11.6 | 0.09 |
| Professional experience (yrs) | 18.1 ± 10.8 | 20 ± 11.9 | 0.1 |
| Anesthesiologists | 198 (44.8%) | 71 (49%) | 0.57 | Anest. residents | 56 (12.7%) | 19 (13.1%) | Neurologists | 123 (27.8%) | 30 (20.7%) | Neurl. residents | 42 (9.5%) | 12 (8.3%) | Neurosurgery | 18 (4.1%) | 11 (7.6%) | Nueros. residents | 5 (1.1%) | 2 (1.4%) |
| Practice hospital | | | | University | 47 (10.6%) | 14 (9.6%) | | Provincial | 97 (21.9%) | 60 (41.4%) | 0.01 | District | 235 (53.2%) | 52 (35.9%) | | Municipal | 63 (14.2%) | 19 (13.1%) | |
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