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'Relative Consent' or 'Presumed Consent'? Organ donation attitudes and behaviour. [PDF]
Eur J Health Econ, 2021 AbstractLegislation, in the form of presumed consent, has been argued to boost organ donation but most evidence disregards the practice of seeking relative’s consent, which can either ‘veto’ donation decisions, or ‘legitimize them’, by removing any possible conflict with the donor’s family.
Costa-Font J +2 more
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What is presumed when we presume consent? [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2008 Background The organ donor shortfall in the UK has prompted calls to introduce legislation to allow for presumed consent: if there is no explicit objection to donation of an organ, consent should be presumed.
Barbara Pierścionek
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Presumed consent for organ donation. [PDF]
BMJ, 2008 Is an ethical and effective way of dealing with organ donation shortages Last year, 1000 people in the United Kingdom died while on the organ transplant list or after being removed from the list because they became too ill. Had a system of presumed consent been in place, whereby adults are automatically registered as organ donors unless they opt out ...
Hamm D, Tizzard J.
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A Multiethnic Asian Perspective of Presumed Consent for Organ Donation: A Population-Based Perception Study. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2021 Background: Organ shortage is still a world-wide problem, resulting in long waiting lists for kidney, liver, and heart transplant candidates across many transplant centers globally.
Muthiah MD +15 more
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How clinicians discuss patients' donor registrations of consent and presumed consent in donor conversations in an opt-out system: a qualitative embedded multiple-case study. [PDF]
Crit Care, 2023 Background The Netherlands introduced an opt-out donor system in 2020. While the default in (presumed) consent cases is donation, family involvement adds a crucial layer of influence when applying this default in clinical practice.
van Oosterhout SPC +11 more
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Presumed consent or contracting out. [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 1999 In the United Kingdom, we have become habitu ated to an opting-in system of cadaveric organ procurement. It is becoming of increasing concern that this system is failing to meet the demand for organs for transplantation, with 5,349 people on waiting lists for solid organ transplants at the end of 1998.l Manifestly, such a tragic statistic alarms us all,
Cho Erin, John Harris
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Presumed consent for organ donation [PDF]
Ann R Coll Surg Engl, 2011 After reading the two well written articles on organ donation in the May 2011 issue, I can appreciate the views of both Koffman and Singh, and Bramhall on what is most definitely a controversial topic. I myself am not only a current surgical trainee but also a recent lucky and grateful recipient of one of the relatively few but growing number of live ...
Rees M.
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Presumed Consent as an Option to Improve Ethiopian Organ Donation Law
Mizan Law Review, 2022 There are two types of legislation underlying organ donation that may be based on presumed consent and expressed consent. In expressed consent, individuals are donors when deceased only if they had registered their consent while alive.
Natae Ebba Kitila
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Should the United States Sign Off on Presumed Consent?
Voices in Bioethics, 2020 Starting in December 2015, Wales will be the first nation in the United Kingdom to break away from convention and join the twenty-four European countries that have adopted presumed consent legislation to address the stagnant transplant rate and shortage ...
Sebastian Agredo
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Consenting options for posthumous organ donation: presumed consent and incentives are not favored. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2012 Background Posthumous organ procurement is hindered by the consenting process. Several consenting systems have been proposed. There is limited information on public relative attitudes towards various consenting systems, especially in Middle Eastern ...
Hammami MM +7 more
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