Table 2.
Patient and family consent and refusal to organ donations
| cDCD (n = 23) N(%) |
DBD (n = 135) N(%) |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patient’s consent | 9 (39.1%) | 32 (23.7%) | 0.13 |
| Family consent | 11 (47.8%) | 73 (54.1%) | 0.58 |
| Patient’s refusal | 0 (0%) | 3 (2.2%) | 1 |
| Family refusal | 3 (13%) | 25 (18.5%) | 0.77 |
| cDCD patients for whom families were asked for consent (n = 14) | DBD patients for whom families were asked for consent (n = 98) | ||
| Family consent | 11 (78.6%) | 73 (74.5%) | 0.74 |
Abbreviations: cDCD controlled donation after circulatory death, DBD donation after brain death, 2 DBD patients were not asked for consent due to ineligibility