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How presumed is presumed consent?

Transplantation proceedings, 1996
All things considered, one is tempted to answer the question in the title: How presumed is presumed consent? Not very, or not at all. It is evident that, regardless of the law, be it opting in or opting out, presumed consent or presumed nonconsent, the family is almost always consulted. The family has the preferential right of interpretation.
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Presuming Consent, Presuming Refusal: Organ Donation and Communal Structure

Health Care Analysis, 2000
Donating, distributing and ultimately transplanting organs each has distinct ethical problems. In this paper I suggest that the first ethical question is not what should be done but what is a fair way in which each of these problems can be addressed. Experts--whether these be transplant surgeons, policy analysts, political scientists or ethicists--can ...
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Independence for Wales: a change from informed consent to presumed consent

Cell and Tissue Banking, 2014
Wales lost its legal independence in 1536 when the Act of Union with England was enacted in London. We have continued to resent the situation and when opportunities offer themselves our national desires emerge. Welsh Nationalist members have been elected from Wales to the British Parliament and continue to remind our English neighbours that we are ...
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Presumed consent and organ donation

Clinical Ethics, 2012
This article explores the meaning and moral significance of presumed consent with particular reference to an opt-out policy for postmortem organ donation. It does so under two general categories: circumstances where we believe consent to have been given and those where we have no reason to believe that it has either been given or been refused.
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Presuming a Patient’s Consent to Risk

1990
Abstract A doctor skeptically wonders, “what is the patient’s interest in reducing ... the aggregate cost of health care by foregoing ... a CAT scan?”1 This simple doubt constitutes a powerful moral challenge to rationing medical care in the interest of overall efficiency in the society.
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Applying utilitarianism to the presumed consent system for organ donation to consider the moral pros and cons

British Journal of Nursing, 2021
Janet Holt
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Presumed consent

Transplantation Proceedings, 2003
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Does Presumed Consent Save Lives? Evidence from Europe

Health Economics (United Kingdom), 2015
Zeynep B Uğur
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The case for “presumed consent” in organ donation

Lancet, The, 1998
R A Sells, A S Daar
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Presumed consent

2009
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