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 = 442HDR = 145

M/F182/25983/620.001

Age (yrs)44.3 ± 10.746.1 ± 11.60.09

Professional experience (yrs)18.1 ± 10.820 ± 11.90.1

Anesthesiologists198 (44.8%)71 (49%)0.57
Anest. residents56 (12.7%)19 (13.1%)
Neurologists123 (27.8%)30 (20.7%)
Neurl. residents42 (9.5%)12 (8.3%)
Neurosurgery18 (4.1%)11 (7.6%)
Nueros. residents5 (1.1%)2 (1.4%)

Practice hospital
 University47 (10.6%)14 (9.6%)
 Provincial 97 (21.9%)60 (41.4%)0.01
 District235 (53.2%)52 (35.9%)
 Municipal63 (14.2%)19 (13.1%)