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Trend of transplants and organ and tissue donations in Brazil: a time series analysis

Tendencia de trasplantes y donaciones de órganos y tejidos en Brasil: análisis de la serie de tiempos

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to indentify the time trend of rates of organs and tissues effective donors, of reports and types of transplanted organs per million people of the Brazilian population.

Methods:

ecological study, of time series, about reports of organ donations and on transplants. The data were provided by the Registro Brasileiro de Transplantes and analyzed using polynomial regression.

Results

an increasing trend was found for potential donors and effective donors, with an average increase of 2.33 and 0.92 per year, respectively. The South Region had the highest rate of potential donors (83.8) and effective donors (34.1) and the North Region, the lowest rate (20.2 and 3.9). The family refusal was the main obstacle to accomplish the donation.

Conclusions

the results show an increasing trend of potential donors and effective donors throughout Brazil, with emphasis on the southern region of the country. Among the main reasons for non-donation, it is worth emphasizing family refusal and medical contraindication prescription.

Descriptors:
Transplant; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Databases as Topic; Epidemiology; Brazil

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