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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Med Ethics. 2018 Jun 28;44(10):666–674. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2017-104695

Table 2.

Sample descriptive statistics

Full sample Involved In psychosocial evaluation Not involved in psychosocial evaluation
N Per cent N Per cent N Per cent
Total 584 282 48.3 302 51.7
Gender (n=489)
 Male 257 52.7 82 14.4 175 30.0
 Female 232 47.4 160 27.4 72 12.3
UNOS region (n=462)
 Region 1 49 10.6 23 3.9 26 4.5
 Region 2 54 11.7 22 3.8 32 5.5
 Region 3 25 5.4 12 2.1 13 2.2
 Region 4 36 7.8 24 4.1 12 2.1
 Region 5 62 13.5 31 5.3 31 5.3
 Region 6 23 4.8 10 1.7 12 2.1
 Region 7 40 8.6 19 3.3 21 3.6
 Region 8 33 7.2 13 2.2 20 3.4
 Region 9 29 6.3 15 2.6 14 2.4
 Region 10 48 10.4 26 4.5 22 3.8
 Region 11 63 13.7 36 6.2 27 4.6
Organ programme*
 Kidney 418 71.6 180 30.8 238 40.8
 Liver 309 52.9 114 19.5 195 33.4
 Heart 84 14.4 65 11.1 19 3.3
 Lung 44 7.5 26 4.5 18 3.1
 Pancreas 226 38.7 81 13.9 145 24.8
 Other 54 9.3 28 4.8 26 4.5
Confident in listing guidelines (n=419)
 Confident 178 30.5 176 30.1 134 22.9
 Not confident 241 41.3 94 16.1 144 24.7
Believe using social support in listing is fair (n=562)
 Agree 422 72.3 214 36.6 200 34.2
 Disagree 79 13.5 24 4.1 55 9.4
 Neutral 61 10.5 34 5.8 35 6.0
Believe using social support in listing is important to avoid organ waste (n=560)
 Agree 392 67.1 193 33.0 197 33.7
 Disagree 54 9.2 26 4.5 28 4.8
 Neutral 114 19.5 51 8.7 63 10.8
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Years in practice (n=484) 16.5 11.2 16.1 10.9 16.9 11.4
Years in transplantation (n=486) 13.5 10.4 11.3 9.8 16.1 10.4
Average psychosocial evaluations per month (n=238) 19.9 20.2 20.0 20.4 0 N/A

Percentages are of full sample (n=584) and may add up to <100% as responses to questions were not required. Remaining respondents did not answer the question.

*

Percentage may add up to >100%, as respondents were allowed to select multiple organs.