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Table 5 Participants’ characteristics and comfort level with medicolegal considerations, religious and ethics competencies

From: Assessing comfort level of organ donation competencies among pediatric intensivists in Saudi Arabia: a national survey

 

Variable

OR (95%CI)

VL/L/Ave

H/VH

P

Health Sector

Ministry of Health

0.465 (0.112 to 1.927)

  

0.291

Ministry of National Guards - Health Affairs

1.197 (0.29 to 4.944)

0.804

Ministry of Defense and Aviation - Armed Forces Hospitals

0.616 (0.141 to 2.687)

0.519

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre

2.258 (0.298 to 17.088)

0.43

Ministry of Higher Education

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Region

West

1.552 (0.423 to 5.699)

0.508

South

6.344 (0.792 to 50.845)

0.082

East

1.889 (0.521 to 6.846)

0.333

Central

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Frequency of involvement in donation after brain death

6 or more times per year

141.204 (9.901 to 2013.767)

<0.001

2–5 times per year

43.66 (5.125 to 371.925)

0.001

Once per year

17.751 (1.901 to 165.778)

0.012

Once every few years

7.144 (0.818 to 62.405)

0.075

Never

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Center with a DBD program *

Yes

 

16 (29.6%)

38 (70.4%)

0.016

No

13 (59.1%)

9 (40.9%)

Transplant center*

Yes

10 (33.3%)

20 (66.7%)

0.484

No

19 (41.3%)

27 (58.7%)

  1. OR Odds ratio, CI Confidence interval, VL Very low, L Low, Ave Average, H High, VH Very high
  2. *Asterisks represent those tests that did not fit the proportional odds assumption; therefore, very low, low, and average results were combined and compared with high and very high using Fisher exact test