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Increasing organ donation by presumed consent and allocation priority: Chile
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2015 Chile, a middle-income country, recently joined Israel and Singapore as the world’s only countries to require reciprocity as a precondition for organ transplantation. The Chilean reform includes opt-out provisions designed to foster donation and priority
Alejandra Zúñiga-Fajuri
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2021 BACKGROUND: All over the world, patients die while waiting for a transplant. Facing this difficulty, countries struggle to find efficient procedures and policies. One policy that has recently been enforced in many countries is the presumed consent (opt-
Janine Kurzen +2 more
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Empowering the voiceless. Disorders of consciousness, neuroimaging and supported decision-making
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 Patients suffering from (Prolonged) Disorder of Consciousness are deemed incompetent to give valid informed consent due to the presumed impairment of their cognitive functions and the impossibility to communicate with them. Neuroscientists have, however,
Timo Istace, Timo Istace
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Procuring organs for transplantation : a European perspective [PDF]
, 1998 Background: The shortage of organs for transplant In Europe has been considerable for many years. A number of different policies have been implemented in an attempt to address this problem.
Randhawa, Gurch
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International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2019 Background Physicians are occasionally faced with patients requesting full resuscitation against medical advice. More commonly, neither patients nor their family members make such a request, but physicians simply presume that providing cardiopulmonary ...
Loukas Georgiou, Anastasios Georgiou
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Presumed post-mortem donors: the degree of information among university students
BMC Medical Ethics, 2021 Background Organ transplantation represents the most effective and acceptable therapy for end-stage organ failure. However, its frequent practice often leads to a shortage of organs worldwide. To solve this dilemma, some countries, such as Portugal, have
Rita da Silva Clemente Pinho +2 more
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Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2016 Protection of rights, health and well-being of persons who are taking the drug during the trial (trial subjects) is one of the basic principles of clinical trials (CT) management. Aim.
K. O. Zupanets +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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‘When no means no’ – adolescent right to refuse an elective surgical procedure: A case study
Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 2017 At law, adults are presumed to have legal competency to provide consent for or refusal to consent to health care treatments unless they have cognitive impairment.
Julia Gilbert, Brigid Gillespie
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Consent in emergency psychiatry : a literature review
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction The fundamental principle of medical ethics is based on the principle of autonomy, of which consent is part, in addition to the right to information and the free choice of caregiver by the patient.
I. Katir +4 more
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