title: The Dutch donor registry: registration rate of hospital personnel, living kidney donors, and patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In the Netherlands 13.3 million citizens were contacted by the Dutch donor registry to indicate whether they consented or objected to become an organ/tissue donor after death. Nearly 4.7 million individuals are now registered, which is a 35.1% response rate. We wondered whether kidney patients, living kidney donors, and health personnel would have comparable response rates.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 239 individuals were interviewed, of whom 52% indicated to be registered. The highest registration rate was found for hospital personnel (66%) followed by living kidney donors (51%) and patients (38%). In general, more women than men (57% vs 47%) had returned their registration form.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the Dutch general public the willingness to make their decision known during life to donate organs/tissue after death is rather low. Presumably motivated individuals (eg, hospital personnel and living kidney donors) scored significantly better, but even in these subgroups 34% and 49%, respectively, were nonresponders.
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine, Section Transplantation, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. w.zuidema@erasmusmc.nl
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zuidema
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Luchtenburg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Klerk
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weimar
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009426:Netherlands; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012042:Registries; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement