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Organ Donation

Seminars in Liver Disease, 2009
Liver transplantation expertise has expanded throughout the world to the point where liver transplants are available in most developed countries. In many cases, however, legislation and regulations have not kept pace with the advances in healthcare technology.
Jason, Rhee   +3 more
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Organ donation

Emergency Nurse, 2006
This article shares the work of the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative (ODBC) in the United States.
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Compelled organ donation

Gender Medicine, 2009
Along with ethical considerations, compelling an individual to donate organs, tissues, or bodily fluids brings several legal doctrines into conflict. The privacy of one's body is generally considered sacrosanct by American courts, which have upheld a competent adult's right to refuse medical procedures, even in cases when they are necessary to save the
Louis M, Solomon   +2 more
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Organ donation

Emergency Nurse, 2011
In this article, the research team has compared NHS Blood and Transplant data collected in all four UK countries between 1990 and 2009. They analysed rates of donation of kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs and corneas per million of the population to see how they differed between the four countries and whether the differences relate to organ type.
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US Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative Increases Organ Donation

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 2008
More than 92000 Americans are on waiting lists for organ transplants, and an average of 17 of them die each day while waiting. The US Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative (ODBC), which began in 2003 at the request of the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, was a formal, concerted effort of the donation and transplantation ...
Teresa J, Shafer   +9 more
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Organ donation protocols

2017
Organ transplantation improves survival and quality of life in patients with end-organ failure. Waiting lists continue to grow across the world despite remarkable advances in the transplantation process, from the creation of public engagement campaigns to the development of critical pathways for the timely identification, referral, approach, and ...
C B, Maciel, D Y, Hwang, D M, Greer
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Organ Donation: Mandatory Organ Donation Declaration

2010
By not donating or saving the organs for the living we are letting someone die. Presumed donation or presumed refuse? Many more organs are needed than available. How to establish a system of fair distribution? It may be recommended that everyone in a country be required to declare if they wish to donate and only those who are on the list to donate can ...
Barbara Maier, Warren A. Shibles†
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ORGAN DONATION

Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 2001
In 2000 the number of organ transplants performed fell by 3% while the waiting list numbers rose by 2%. The human consequence of these statistics is that because of the shortage of organs more people who are in need of a transplant are dying. There is no one single reason to why this is happening with the result that the solution may be complex.
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Organ Procurement Organization Donation Requestors Describe Barriers to Pediatric Organ Donation

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
OBJECTIVES: Organ procurement organization (OPO) donation requestor staff approach grieving families to discuss donating organs from their loved ones. We have carried out a qualitative study to explore the barriers that OPO donation requestor staff face in accessing pediatric families and requesting consent.
Gretchen B. Chapman   +3 more
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Organ donation

BMJ, 2010
Paul J, Frost   +2 more
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