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Fig. 3

From: Request for organ donation without donor registration: a qualitative study of the perspectives of bereaved relatives

Fig. 3

General model showing factors that influence the decision process for organ donation of relatives. General model. A participant who has to choose between (left) donation refusal or (right) consent to DBD (or DCD, when they had reasons to refuse DBD). Beneath the signpost, all factors are listed that could contribute to consent or refusal to consent to donation in absence of the registered preference of the deceased: top the healthcare-related factors, bottom the relative-related factors. Abbreviations: DCD = donation after circulatory death; DBD = donation after brain death; OD = organ donation

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