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Clinicians' Perception and Experience of Organ Donation From Brain-Dead Patients.
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Critical care medicine [Crit Care Med] 2017 Sep; Vol. 45 (9), pp. 1489-1499. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Objective: ICU clinicians are primarily involved in organ donation after brain death of ICU patients. Their perceptions of organ donation may affect outcomes. Our objective was to describe ICU clinician's perceptions and experience of organ donation.<br />Design and Setting: Cross-sectional study among physicians and nurses (90 ICUs in France). We used factorial correspondence analysis to describe categories of clinicians regarding their perceptions and experience of organ donation. Factors associated with a positive (motivating) or negative (stressful) experiences were studied using multivariate logistic regression.<br />Participants: Physicians and nurses.<br />Measurements and Main Results: Three thousand three hundred twenty-five clinicians working in 77 ICUs returned questionnaires. Professionals who experienced organ donation as motivating were younger (odds ratio, 0.41; 95% CI, 0.32-0.53; p < 0.001), more often potential organ donors (odds ratio, 1.92; 95% CI, 1.56-2.35; p < 0.001), less likely to describe inconsistency (odds ratio, 0.43; 95% CI, 0.23-0.8) or complexity (odds ratio, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.45-0.67) of their feelings versus their professional activity, less likely to report that organ donation was not a priority in their ICU (odds ratio, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.55-0.84), and more likely to have participated in meetings of transplant coordinators with relatives (odds ratio, 1.71; 95% CI, 1.37-2.14; p < 0.001). Professionals who felt organ donation was stressful were older (odds ratio, 1.84; 95% CI, 1.34-2.54; p < 0.001), less often physicians (odds ratio, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.44-0.77; p < 0.001), more likely to describe shift from curative care to organ donation as emotionally complex (odds ratio, 1.83; 95% CI, 1.52-2.21; p < 0.001), care of relatives of brain-dead patients as complex (odds ratio, 1.59; 95% CI, 1.32-1.93; p < 0.001), and inconsistency and complexity of personal feelings about organ donation versus professional activity (odds ratio, 3.25; 95% CI, 1.92-5.53; p < 0.001), and more likely to have little experience with caring for potential organ donors (odds ratio, 1.49; 95% CI, 1.09-2.04).<br />Conclusions: Significant differences exist among ICU clinician's perceptions of organ donation. Whether these differences affect family experience and consent rates deserves investigation.
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- Adult
Age Factors
Cross-Sectional Studies
Emotions
Family psychology
Female
France
Humans
Male
Medical Staff, Hospital psychology
Middle Aged
Nursing Staff, Hospital psychology
Perception
Stress, Psychological psychology
Attitude of Health Personnel
Brain Death
Intensive Care Units
Tissue and Organ Procurement organization & administration
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1530-0293
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Critical care medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28671899
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000002581