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Correlates of willingness to consider organ donation among blacks

open access: yesSocial Science and Medicine, 1990
Professionals in the health care and organ procurement fields reveal that black Americans display limited commitment to organ donation. The present study represents an attempt to shed some light on this issue by examining the relationship of selected ...
Wright, Roosevelt, Creecy, Robert F.
exaly   +2 more sources

Organization of an Organ Donation Network

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1986
The National Organ Donation Network involves numerous organizations and institutions, with the organ procurement agencies playing a key role. Figure 2 depicts the complex structure of the procurement process. There is little consistency in structure among community procurement networks, but there is a strong unified approach to the national sharing of ...
F D, Davis, J S, Lucier, F W, LoGerfo
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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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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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Organ Donation and Suicide

Psychological Reports, 2010
For the period 1994-2005 in the USA, suicides were less likely to be organ donors than were victims of homicide and motor vehicle accidents.
David, Lester, Domenique, Hathaway
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Trends in organ donation

Clinical Transplantation, 1998
Renal and extrarenal transplant data were collected for seven geographical regions for the period 1989‐1996. In Western Europe and North America the number of kidney donors increased by 926 and 2743, respectively. The total number of transplants also increased in both regions by 3756 and 6936, respectively. Renal transplants accounted for approximately
B, Cohen   +4 more
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Trends in organ donation

Transplantation Proceedings, 1997
Presumed consent legislation produces more donors and in particular more organs per donor. In cadaveric donation, the number of elderly donors is increasing, so the quality of organs available is getting poorer. There will be no substantial rise in transplantation unless there is a major breakthrough in the current programs.
B, Cohen, G G, Persijn
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Organ donation with vouchers

Journal of Economic Theory, 2021
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Jaehong Kim 0005   +2 more
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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 in Suicides

Transplantation Proceedings, 2007
There are few reports in the literature analyzing brain death epidemiology in suicides, or the rate of donation and family authorization in such situations.The objectives of this study were to analyze the frequency of suicide as a cause of brain death and to compare the donation rates among this population with other causes of brain death.We reviewed ...
F M, Figueiredo   +7 more
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