Table 5.
No date of transplants in papers | All transplants prior to 2010* | Transplants before and after 2010 when volunteer pilot started | All transplants took place during pilot 2010–2014 | Transplants occurred before and after 2014 | All transplants occurred post-2014 | |
Total included papers | 61 | 192 | 148 | 38 | 6 | 0 |
Total number of transplants | 2959 | 28 442 | 49 376 | 3937 | 763 | 0 |
33 papers claiming no executed prisoners (no. of transplants) |
19 (2688) | 8 (1212) | 6 (1556) | 0 | 0 | |
14 papers claiming volunteers (no. of transplants) |
1 (321) | 8 (2269) | 4 (387) | 1 (12) | 0 | 0 |
6 papers claiming donors gave consent (no. of transplants) | 1 (40) | 3 (200) | 2 (1197) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10 papers with statement about donors implying voluntariness or consent (no. of transplants) | 2 (11) | 0 | 4 (619) | 4 (153) | 0 | 0 |
*In one paper,37 the dates of the transplants were not recorded, but the paper, published in 2010, reported on research subjects whose grafts had been stable for at least 2 years, indicating transplant prior to 2010.