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. 2025 Nov 21;5:86. doi: 10.1186/s44158-025-00301-7

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