title: [Organ donation for transplant: a human response to death].
abstract: Dialysis instead of kidney transplantation remains the available treatment for most of the uremic Brazilian population. The low percentage of transplants of cadaver donors (20%) that occurs in Brazil is insufficient to prevent the progressive accumulation in the number of individuals requiring transplants. Our investigation shows that 86.6% of the people of Londrina know the importance of organ donation but actually only 36.4% would sign a donor card. Most of them mentioned not being fully acquainted with the matter, a fact to suggest we should increase our efforts at extending to the population further knowledge on death and dying.
authors.affiliation: Dep. de Clín. Méd. da Univ. Est. de Londrina, PR.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Mocelin
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cavalari
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Doação de órgãos para transplante, uma resposta humana à morte.