‘Relative Consent’ or ‘Presumed Consent’? Organ donation attitudes and behaviour [PDF]
European Journal of Health Economics, 2020 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.
Joan Costa-Font +1 more
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A Multiethnic Asian Perspective of Presumed Consent for Organ Donation: A Population-Based Perception Study [PDF]
Frontiers in 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.
Wen Hui Lim +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.
Pierscionek Barbara K
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Presumed consent for organ donation [PDF]
The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 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 ...
Geoff Koffman +2 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]
Critical 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.
Sanne P. C. van Oosterhout +11 more
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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 ...
Danielle, Hamm, Juliet, Tizzard
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Consenting options for posthumous organ donation: presumed consent and incentives are not favored [PDF]
BMC Medical 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 Muhammad M +7 more
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Fewer Mistakes and Presumed Consent
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2021 Abstract “Opt-out” organ procurement policies based on presumed consent are typically advertised as being superior to “opt-in” policies based on explicit consent at securing organs for transplantation. However, Michael Gill (2004) has argued that presumed consent policies are also better than opt-in policies at respecting patient ...
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Presumed consent and the implications for eye donation [PDF]
Eye, 2020 Hossain P.
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Is presumed consent an ethically acceptable way of obtaining organs for transplant? [PDF]
Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 2019 Pradeep Kumar Prabhu
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