A Holistic Assessment of Organ Transplantation Activities, Scientific Productivity on Brain Death in Islamic Countries, and Comparison of the Outcomes with the United Nations Development Statistics

In this study, we aimed to question the attitude of Islamic nations on organ donation and transplantatio n. Secondly, we endeavored to investigate how the Islamic perspective on these issues influences scientific productivity about the subject of brain death, which is undeviatingly related to organ transplantation. The term “brain death” was searched in Thomson Reuters, Web of Science search engine , only including Muslim countries. All of the data obtained were subjected to bibliometric analysis. We also compared the transplantation statistics of Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation Organization with the development statistics of the United Nations (UN). The two leading Muslim c ountries in terms of scientific productivity about brain death are Turkey and Iran.Transplantation proceedings is the leading scientific journal on this subject. These two countries have outperformed other Islamic countries in terms of organ donation and transplantation statistics. We also revealed that the human development index and education index of the UN have a positive correlation with the number of deceased transplantation, which is directly related to the number of brain-death-diagnosed cases (r 0.696,p <  0.05 andr 0.771,p <  0.05, respectively). Additionally, we found a positive correlation between expenditure on research and development data of the UN with the number of total transplantations performed and the number of scientific articles on brain death (r...
Source: Journal of Religion and Health - Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research