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Should the United States Sign Off on Presumed Consent? [PDF]

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
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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Presumed consent in emergency neonatal research [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesMizan 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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Public Policy Through the Lens of Necessity

open access: yesVoices 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: licenses and limits inferred from the case of geriatric hip fractures. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC 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
europepmc   +2 more sources

Perceptions of deceased donors’ relatives about consent to organ donation [PDF]

open access: yesRevista 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
doaj   +1 more source

Presumed consent or contracting out. [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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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