The number of available organs for transplant each year falls woefully short of the number of patients in need of donated organs in the United States. While approval numbers are very high for organ donation, the number of registered donors is much smaller. A commonly proposed solution to increase the pool of organ donors is to replace the current explicit consent policy with a presumed consent system, where everyone is considered to have consented as a donor unless they have opted out by joining a non-donor registry or by some other method. This proposal raises many ethical questions that must be examined in light of standard medical ethics principles before implementation of such a policy should be supported. On a practical level, the evid...
In the U.S., Great Britain, and in many other countries, the gap between the demand and the supply o...
Context: Many of the alternatives for procuring donor organs are considered either ineffective, unet...
According to NHS Blood and Transplant, there are over 10,000 people in the UK that are in need of an...
In recent decades, developed nations, such as the United States, have seen the gap between the deman...
his paper examines the presumed consent approach from a practical, legal and ethical perspective. It...
Purpose: Obtaining consent for post-mortem organ donation is a complicated process, and the current ...
This article follows the recent publication of the Organs for Donation Task Force report, "Organs fo...
The recent debate about organ donation was surprisingly heated. People complained about a ‘nanny sta...
Background: There is a worldwide shortage of donor organs for transplantation. To overcome this, sev...
From 1988 to 2001, the supply of transplantable organs grew by 140%, an accomplishment dwarfed by th...
It is often claimed that a legitimate approach to organ donation is an opt-out system, also known as...
AbstractSince its inauguration in 1954, the field of modern transplantation has made great strides i...
The shortage of organs available for transplant has been a serious and unchanging worldwide problem ...
Within the U.K. the crisis in the numbers of organs available for transplantation has featured stron...
On an average day, 15 people die waiting for an organ that could have saved their lives-that\u27s so...
In the U.S., Great Britain, and in many other countries, the gap between the demand and the supply o...
Context: Many of the alternatives for procuring donor organs are considered either ineffective, unet...
According to NHS Blood and Transplant, there are over 10,000 people in the UK that are in need of an...
In recent decades, developed nations, such as the United States, have seen the gap between the deman...
his paper examines the presumed consent approach from a practical, legal and ethical perspective. It...
Purpose: Obtaining consent for post-mortem organ donation is a complicated process, and the current ...
This article follows the recent publication of the Organs for Donation Task Force report, "Organs fo...
The recent debate about organ donation was surprisingly heated. People complained about a ‘nanny sta...
Background: There is a worldwide shortage of donor organs for transplantation. To overcome this, sev...
From 1988 to 2001, the supply of transplantable organs grew by 140%, an accomplishment dwarfed by th...
It is often claimed that a legitimate approach to organ donation is an opt-out system, also known as...
AbstractSince its inauguration in 1954, the field of modern transplantation has made great strides i...
The shortage of organs available for transplant has been a serious and unchanging worldwide problem ...
Within the U.K. the crisis in the numbers of organs available for transplantation has featured stron...
On an average day, 15 people die waiting for an organ that could have saved their lives-that\u27s so...
In the U.S., Great Britain, and in many other countries, the gap between the demand and the supply o...
Context: Many of the alternatives for procuring donor organs are considered either ineffective, unet...
According to NHS Blood and Transplant, there are over 10,000 people in the UK that are in need of an...