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PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF SUPPORT
(Poll Summary)

The Presumed Consent Foundation is pleased to make full poll results available upon request by phone or e-mail
This poll was conducted by Leon M. Gervitz, Ph.D, with the assistance of 3 students from the Texas Tech School of Medicine,  under the supervision of  Timothy Nix, Ph.D, Director of the MBA/MD in Health Organization Management program, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University. It was conducted during October and November 2002 via telephone calls to phone numbers within the Amarillo, Lubbock, and Midland/Odessa areas of west Texas generated at random by a computer program. There were 254 responses to the 34 poll questions. The questions were asked using a set format flow chart designed by Dr. Gervitz with Dr. Nix’s approval.

Of all respondents, 57% support presumed consent as evidenced by the one question:
18. Several countries including Italy, Spain, France and Denmark operate national systems of presumed consent for organ donation. The way presumed consent works is that everyone is considered to be an organ donor, unless they “opt out” or “choose to not be a donor".
   
COUNT
PERCENTAGE
A Strongly Support
87
34%
B Somewhat Support
58
23%
C Strongly Oppose
54
21%
D Somewhat Oppose
32
13%
E Not sure
23
09%
But more importantly, from the additional correlations it was found:
  Of the people who support organ donation in general 62% support Presumed Consent
  Of the people who are Very Likely to donate their organs after their death 67.4%  support Presumed Consent
  Of the people who either Strongly Support or Somewhat Support presumed consent  94.5% felt presumed consent would effectively increase the number of available organs for transplantation.
  Of the people who either Strongly Opposed or Somewhat Opposed presumed consent 80.2% felt presumed consent would effectively increase the number of available organs for transplantation.

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