Organ Donar Consent Rates & Race

The following research paper explores the effects of race on organ donation. Specifically the research objective is to determine if there is a relationship between organ donor consent rates and the matching of race requestors to race of potential donor families. Pearson's correlation was used to demonstrate significant relationships. It was expected that there would be a significant relationship between the variables, however the study findings did not support the study hypothesis that there is a significant correlation between race of requestors and potential organ donors and organ donor consent outcomes.

Evans, Orians, and Ascher (1992) pointed out that over 60,000 patients who die annually or are maintained with therapy, need an organ transplant; 23,000 patients continue to wait for an organ transplant and donor supply is not adequate. These findings are from a geographic database compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics. At the time of this report there were between 6900 and 10700 potential donors available annually, yet only 37%-59& of donations were procured. Thus there are more organ donors available that are consenting to donate organs.

Kahn (2003) noted further that the supply of donor organs for transplant continues to remain inadequate and as a result there are many programs to increase these donations. Approaches include a marketing approach, attempts

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g potential donors. Shafer, Van Buren, Guerriero, Davis, Sullivan, Reyes, Cole, and Oppermann (1998) also considered the effects of race on organ donations, but from a different angle. These authors explored the effects of matching the race of the requester with the race of the potential donor and determined if same race requests resulted in an increase of organ donation consents. To explore this effect, an in-house coordinator program was implemented. The largest number of potential donors at this hospital are minorities (black and Hispanic; 75%). In 1993, out of 124 referrals, only 19 became donors (15% conversion rate). The consent rate for this year was 31%. Low consent rates were from black and Hispanic families more than from white families. In 1994 and 1995, black staff requested consent from black families and Hispanic coordinators requested consent from Hispanic families, which resulted in increases (black consent rates increased from 14% to 50%; Hispanic consent rates increased from 32% to 50%). Following this, the in-house coordinator project was implemented in which two full-time staff members were devoted to the task of increasing donations. These coordinators, one white and one black, were to identify dono
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Approximate Word count = 1400
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)