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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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Being Convinced and Taking Responsibility: A Qualitative Study of Family Members’ Experience of Organ Donation Decision and Bereavement After Brain Death*

Critical Care Medicine, 2019
Objectives: Family members of brain dead patients experience an unprecedented situation in which not only they are told that their loved one is dead but are also asked to consider organ donation. The objective of this qualitative study was to determine 1)
N. Kentish-Barnes   +22 more
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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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Is an opt-out system likely to increase organ donation?

British medical journal, 2019
As England’s presumed consent law for 2020 clears parliament, Veronica English and Emma Johnson say that evidence from Wales and other countries shows that it could increase transplantation rates.
V. English   +3 more
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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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Organ Donation (See Donation, Organs)

2021
Henk ten Have   +1 more
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