Are High Rates of Deceased Donation Conditioning the Attitude Toward Liver Donation Among Medical Students?

The involvement of health professionals from their training period is important for the promotion of living liver donation. There are data that indicate that the awareness of living donation is lower in areas with high rates of deceased donation. To analyze the attitude toward living liver donation...

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Veröffentlicht in:Transplantation proceedings 2019-03, Vol.51 (2), p.253-257
Hauptverfasser: Ríos, A., López-Navas, A., Gutiérrez, P.R., Gómez, F.J., Iriarte, J., Herruzo, R., Blanco, G., Llorca, F.J., Asunsolo, A., Sánchez, P., Fernández, A., de Jesús, M.T., Martínez Alarcón, L., Lana, A., Fuentes, L., Hernández, J.R., Virseda, J., Yelamos, J., Bondía, J.A., Hernández, A.M., Ayala, M.A., Flores-Medina, J., Carrillo, J., Sánchez, Á., Ruiz-Manzanera, J.J., Ramírez, P., Parrilla, P.
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Zusammenfassung:The involvement of health professionals from their training period is important for the promotion of living liver donation. There are data that indicate that the awareness of living donation is lower in areas with high rates of deceased donation. To analyze the attitude toward living liver donation among Spanish medical students, according to donation rates of their regions. Population under study: Medical students in Spanish universities. Database of the Collaborative International Donor Project, stratified by geographic area and academic course. The completion was anonymous and self-administered. Groups under study: group 1 (n = 1136): students in universities of regions with >50 donors per million population (pmp); group 2 (n = 2018): students in region universities with 
ISSN:0041-1345
1873-2623
DOI:10.1016/j.transproceed.2018.11.004