[Estimation of the potential number of donor organs in 1988 and 1989 in 13 hospitals with a major neurosurgical department].
In the Netherlands the supply of donor organs for transplantation still fails to meet demand. This study deals with the total number of donors and donor organs available in the 13 Dutch hospitals with a large neurosurgical department. The number of kidneys that could have been donated was twice as large, hearts and livers five times as large, and pancreas 35 times as large as the numbers actually donated (in absolute numbers for 1988 and 1989 respectively 631 and 642 (kidneys), 173 and 204 (livers), 154 and 178 (hearts) and 239 and 285 (pancreata). Refusal by the potential donor's family was the main reason for not donating organs.
Kodde
J H
JH
Stichting Eurotransplant, Leiden.
Kerkhoff
A H
AH
D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D009493:Neurosurgery; D016035:Pancreas Transplantation; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000379:methods*
Schatting van het potentiële aantal donororganen in 1988 en 1989 in 13 ziekenhuizen met een hoofdfunctie neurochirurgie.