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Realities in Organ Donation
Author(s) -
Matesanz R.,
Coll E.,
Garrido G.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2007.01953.x
Subject(s) - donation , organ donation , medicine , scopus , population , transplantation , family medicine , demography , actuarial science , surgery , law , medline , environmental health , political science , business , sociology
From the time the Organization for Transplants (ONT) was created in 1989 up to 2005, the organ donation rate in Spain increased from 14 to 35. A total of 1 per million population (pmp), by far the highest rate ever reached by a country, with at least 5 regions having 40 donors’ pmp. This is the only example in the world of a large country with a sustained increase in deceased organ donation over a 15-year period.