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Public Policy Governing Organ and Tissue Procurement in the United States
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1995 To determine why Required Request policies, which mandate that hospitals request donation from donor-eligible families, have not resulted in increased organ procurement.Stratified sample of 23 acute-care general hospitals in two metropolitan areas.Chart review identified all eligible donors in study hospitals during a 20-month period.
Arthur L. Caplan +4 more
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NURSING AND THE PROCUREMENT OF ORGANS AND TISSUES IN THE ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL SETTING
Nursing Clinics of North America, 1998 Organ and tissue transplantations are now well established procedures; however, a scarcity of donors and the obstacles encountered during the procurement process have resulted in a growing shortage of organs and tissues. This paper reviews the issues surrounding the procurement process and the role that nurses play in that process. Two case studies are
L, Siminoff, C M, Saunders Sturm
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Differences in the procurement of organs and tissues by health care professionals
Clinical Transplantation, 1994 Background: The act of donating organs is familiar to most health care professionals (HCPs). However, the process of tissue and cornea donation is not nearly as well known. Most studies of the donation process have neglected the issue of tissue and cornea donation.
L A, Siminoff, R, Arnold, D S, Miller
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Tissue and organ procurement in the emergency department setting
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1993 A retrospective chart review of all emergency department (ED) deaths in patients younger than 65 years in seven area hospitals was performed for the calendar year of 1990. The number and percentage of families approached and consenting to tissue donation among the various EDs was compared and reasons for not approaching families were evaluated for ...
Brent E. Ruoff +3 more
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The Role of the Medical Examiner/Coroner in Organ and Tissue Procurement for Transplantation
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 1994 Facts and principles concerning the role of the medical examiner or coroner in the procurement of organs or tissue for transplantation are presented. Topics discussed are the legalities and the importance of control of the dead body, the medical examiner's or coroner's role in the determination of death, recognition of and working around procurement ...
Donald R. Jason
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Journal of Transplant Coordination, 1997 Previous research has established that organ procurement professionals who talk with families about donation have strong personal preferences concerning the donation of specific organs and tissues. This study examines possible reasons for such preferences and compares them with those of hospital personnel who talk with families about donation.
Margaret Verble, Judy Worth
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Public Policy Governing Organ and Tissue Procurement
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1996 Robert M. Arnold +2 more
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Journal of Nephrology, 2020 No abstract available; case ...
Novelli, Luca +4 more
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The Principles of Organ and Tissue Procurement
Abstract Many patients declared brain dead become organ and tissue donors. Donation can come through donation after cardiac death (DCD) or donation after brain death (DBD) protocols, and consent is obtained from family members by organ procurement officers.
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
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, 1989 This chapter addresses two topics that may appear, at first, to have very little in common: (1) the question of whether required request laws have been successful with respect to organ procurement, and (2) the morality of using infants born with anencephaly as a source of organs and tissues.
Arthur L. Caplan
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