Abstract:
BACKGROUND:Little is known about the stability of decisions that people make to be organ donors. We sought to determine the rate of stability of organ donor designations on driver's licenses. METHODS:With the use of a cross-sectional study design, we reviewed the health records of 2500 randomly selected primary-care patients at a large urban safety-net medical system to obtain their demographic and medical characteristics. We also examined the two most recent unique driver's licenses, state identification cards, or learner's permits that were scanned into electronic health records as part of the patient registration process. We obtained organ donor designations from these documents for each patient. RESULTS:Of all patients, 1174 (47%) had two driver's licenses, identification cards, or permits in their electronic medical records. The two documents were issued an average of 3.5 years apart. Overall, 114 (10%) patients had differing organ donor designations on their two documents. Among the 502 patients who were designated as organ donors on the first document, 32 (6%) were not designated as organ donors on the second document. Among the 672 patients who were not designated as organ donors on the first document, 82 (12%) were designated as organ donors on the second document. There was little relationship between stability of organ donor designations and patient demographic and medical characteristics. CONCLUSIONS:About 1 of every 10 patients changed their organ donor designation, but stability was not associated with any demographic or medical factors. Further work is needed to understand why individuals change their organ donor designation.
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Transplant Procjournal_title
Transplantation proceedingsauthors
Sehgal NK,Sullivan C,Figueroa M,Pencak JA,Thornton JDdoi
10.1016/j.transproceed.2016.04.008subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-07-01 00:00:00pages
1907-10issue
6eissn
0041-1345issn
1873-2623pii
S0041-1345(16)30154-3journal_volume
48pub_type
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更新日期:2016-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
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