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Presumed consent in emergency neonatal research [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2000 Current methods of obtaining consent for emergency neonatal research are flawed. They risk aggravating the distress of parents of preterm and other sick neonates. This distress, and the inevitable time constraints, compromise understanding and voluntariness, essential components of adequately informed consent.
Manning, D.J., Manning, D. J.
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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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The Political Economy of Presumed Consent [PDF]
, 2005 The legal procurement of cadaveric human organs in Western countries is institutionalized in different ways, and donation rates vary widely. In particular, law in some countries allows for the consent of the donor to be presumed, and thus — in principle — the wishes of the next-of-kin to be overridden.
Healy, Kieran
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Public Policy Through the Lens of Necessity
Voices in Bioethics, 2021 Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash INTRODUCTION Necessity can drive people’s behavior to extremes, and at times, can provide an excuse for otherwise criminal, illegal actions that, under normal circumstances, would be morally wrong.
Anne Zimmerman
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Presumed consent in organ donation: the devil is in the detail [PDF]
, 2008 This article follows the recent publication of the Organs for Donation Task Force report, "Organs for Transplants", and considers the debate surrounding a change in the law in favour of presumed consent in organ ...
Hutchinson, Odette
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Presumed consent: licenses and limits inferred from the case of geriatric hip fractures. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2017 Background: Hip fractures are common and serious injuries in the geriatric population. Obtaining informed consent for surgery in geriatric patients can be difficult due to the high prevalence of comorbid cognitive impairment.
Bernstein J +3 more
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Perceptions of deceased donors’ relatives about consent to organ donation [PDF]
Revista Enfermagem Digital Cuidado e Promoção da Saúde, 2021 Objective: To know the perception of deceased donors’ relatives about consent to organ donation and the factors that influence the decision to donate. Methods: Exploratory and descriptive research with a qualitative approach.
Luzia Mendes de Carvalho Souza +6 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,
Erin, C. A., Harris, J.
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