Organ donation : opportunities for action

Organ donation : opportunities for action / Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; James F. Childress and Catharyn T. Liverman, editors.

Rates of organ donation lag far behind the increasing need. At the start of 2006, more than 90,000 people were waiting to receive a solid organ (kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, heart, or intestine). Organ Donation examines a wide range of proposals to increase organ donation, including policies that...

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Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation
Other Authors: Childress, James F., Liverman, Catharyn T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Medical policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Medical policy
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Table of Contents:
  • Trends and patterns
  • Perspectives and principles
  • Systems to support organ donation
  • Expanding the population of potential donors
  • Promoting and facilitating individual and family decisions to donate
  • Presumed consent
  • Incentives for deceased donation
  • Ethical considerations in living donation
  • Opportunities for action.

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