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EANS-News: Julia Klöckner and CompuGroup Medical Team up for Organ Donations

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Results of a representative survey: Physicians save lives based on 
conviction
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Subtitle: Results of a representative survey: Physicians save lives 
based on conviction
October 14, 2010: The waiting lists are long,
there aren´t enough donated organs, and the affected patients are 
desperate. People still seem to have reservations about donating 
organs. More information must be made available. CompuGroup Medical 
wants to help interested physicians educate and convince people about
this important topic. Julia Klöckner, parliamentary secretary of 
state and CDU state chair for Rheinland-Pfalz, has agreed to sponsor 
this important, life-saving project.
With organ donations, the donor´s organs will be made available to 
severely ill individuals after the donor´s death. Consent to organ 
donation must be given while the potential donor is still alive; up 
to now this was generally done with an organ donor card. Without this
official consent, the organs cannot be harvested for transplantation.
Many physicians that would like to increase the number of life-saving
organ donations are aware of this issue. More than half of those 
surveyed (50.9%) already demonstrate their personal willingness to 
donate their organs with a donor card. However, not all physicians 
act on their convictions. More than one out of three physicians 
(35.2%) reports not having given it much thought so far. Only 13.6% 
have made a conscious decision against filling out a donor card.
Basic willingness to donate is sought Statistics make it alarmingly 
clear: There have been fewer organ donations and organ 
transplantations in Germany in the past few years - a development 
that German Health Policy is also trying to reverse at this time. The
majority of surveyed physicians believe that the numbers could be 
improved through new organ donation regulations. More than seven out 
of ten (72%) are in favor of changing the current requirement of 
giving consent to requiring an objection. In practice, this would 
mean that explicit consent would no longer be required and an active 
objection would be required by those not wanting to donate. In 
contrast, one fourth of surveyed physicians (26.8%) want to keep the 
current solution of requiring consent.
In favor of organ donations, but against a competition People that 
are willing to make their organs available after their death should 
not do so based on an egotistical calculation. That is the opinion of
almost two thirds of the surveyed physicians (63%). They are strictly
against rewarding the willingness to donate with a better spot on the
waiting list. However, not every physician finds such ulterior 
motives distasteful. More than one in three (35%) believes it is fair
that people willing to donate should have faster access to a donated 
organ in the event they need one.
There is still a great need for education in German doctors` offices 
Even though German physicians have a positive attitude toward organ 
donations, they don´t actively convey their conviction during daily 
patient interactions. It is encouraging to find that three out of ten
surveyed physicians (30%) do encourage their patients to give some 
serious thought to organ donation - but only in certain cases. More 
than six out of ten physicians (60.5%) admit that they practically 
never approach the subject with their patients. Only one out of ten 
(9.5%) emphasizes that he/she usually tries to get their patients 
interested in organ donation. Julia Klöckner and CompuGroup Medical 
would like to increase this interest in the future with the campaign 
"(M)ein Klick fürs Leben" (one click for life).
About CompuGroup Medical AG CompuGroup Medical is one of the leading 
e-health companies worldwide. Its software products, designed to 
support all medical and organizational activities in doctors´ offices
and hospitals, its information services for all parties involved in 
the healthcare system and its web-based personal health records 
contribute towards safer and more efficient healthcare. The services 
of CompuGroup Medical are based on its unique customer base of around
370,000 doctors, dentists, hospitals and networks as well as other 
service providers. CompuGroup Medical is the e-Health company with 
one of the biggest coverage among e-health service providers 
worldwide. The company operates in 14 European countries as well as 
in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and in the USA and currently 
employs around 3,000 people.
The CGM GesundheitsMONITOR: The CGM GesundheitsMONITOR is a joint 
initiative of CompuGroup Medical, the Medical Tribune and the 
Rhein-Zeitung. They perform representative monthly surveys of 440 
general practitioners with regard to current issues in the healthcare
system. You can download free printable graphs and find publications 
as well as information about the representative survey at www.cgm- 
gesundheitsmonitor.de.
About Medical Tribune: For over 40 years, the Medical Tribune has 
been one of the most widely read publications for private practice 
physicians. The popular weekly newspaper offers an attractive mix of 
medicine, health and professional policies relevant to private 
practice, and economic issues that apply to the medical profession. 
In a unique style, the Medical Tribune provides multi-faceted 
continued education, personal advice, and interesting reading 
material within a newspaper. The Medical Tribune´s success story has 
been documented by the independent readership review (LA-MED) for 
decades.
About Rhein-Zeitung: The Rhein-Zeitung area of circulation connects 
the metropolitan areas Köln-Bonn and the Rhein-Main region. The 
economically strong region around Koblenz is located in the center. 
With a circulation of right of 224,000 copies and 17 local issues, 
the Rhein-Zeitung has approximately 640,000 readers.
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