What ICU nurses in different Austrian hospitals know and think about the Austrian organ donation law

We previously reported a high level of information on the Austrian organ donation law in medical and non-medical students, patients and ICU nurses, whereby ICU nurses at University Hospital in Graz (n = 185) were very well informed and also had the most critical view of the Austrian organ donation l...

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Autores principales: Zettel, Gabriele, Horvath, Angela, Vorobyeva, Ekaterina, Auburger, Christian, Zink, Michael, Stiegler, Philipp, Stadlbauer, Vanessa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4071213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24938119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-15-46
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author Zettel, Gabriele
Horvath, Angela
Vorobyeva, Ekaterina
Auburger, Christian
Zink, Michael
Stiegler, Philipp
Stadlbauer, Vanessa
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description We previously reported a high level of information on the Austrian organ donation law in medical and non-medical students, patients and ICU nurses, whereby ICU nurses at University Hospital in Graz (n = 185) were very well informed and also had the most critical view of the Austrian organ donation law. This letter reports the extension of our previous study to ICU nurses from hospitals with a Christian background (n = 60). We found that ICU nurses in hospitals run by religious congregations considered the Austrian organ donation law to be good more often than did those at the University Hospital in Graz. A positive attitude was also influenced by gender and prior knowledge of the law. Reasons for this could be the Christian orientation of the hospitals or exposure to organ donation and transplantation procedures on the job.
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spelling pubmed-40712132014-06-27 What ICU nurses in different Austrian hospitals know and think about the Austrian organ donation law Zettel, Gabriele Horvath, Angela Vorobyeva, Ekaterina Auburger, Christian Zink, Michael Stiegler, Philipp Stadlbauer, Vanessa BMC Med Ethics Correspondence We previously reported a high level of information on the Austrian organ donation law in medical and non-medical students, patients and ICU nurses, whereby ICU nurses at University Hospital in Graz (n = 185) were very well informed and also had the most critical view of the Austrian organ donation law. This letter reports the extension of our previous study to ICU nurses from hospitals with a Christian background (n = 60). We found that ICU nurses in hospitals run by religious congregations considered the Austrian organ donation law to be good more often than did those at the University Hospital in Graz. A positive attitude was also influenced by gender and prior knowledge of the law. Reasons for this could be the Christian orientation of the hospitals or exposure to organ donation and transplantation procedures on the job. BioMed Central 2014-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4071213/ /pubmed/24938119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-15-46 Text en Copyright © 2014 Zettel et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-15-46
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