Showing posts with label opt in. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opt in. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Compensation for kidney donors? Opt in or opt out? The BBC and The Rift revisit the debates.(featuring Sally Satel and Frank McCormick)

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The BBC covers the shortage of transplantable organs, and reviews the debate about compensating living organ donors, among other possibilit...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Alex Chan on deceased organ donation policy, in JAMA

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Alex Chan comments on an earlier article in JAMA: US Organ Donation Policy Alex Chan, January 21, 2020 " To the Editor Ms Glazier...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Rates of organ donation in countries with presumed consent versus those with explicit consent

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Here's an illuminating figure from the 2018 paper Organ Donation and Transplantation in Canada     Sonya Norris, Legal and Social ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

How is the U.S. opt in system of organ donation doing compared to an opt out system? Alex Glazier and Tom Mone in JAMA

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Alex Glazier and Tom Mone run, respectively, the big Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) in New England and Southern California. Succe...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Organ donation by opt-out versus opt-in deceased donor registration (no significant effect on transplants)

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In the June issue of Kidney International, there's a meta-study of organ transplantation rates in opt out versus opt in countries, that...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Nova Scotia moves towards presumed consent for organ donation

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The CBC is following the story: Nova Scotia's opt-out organ donation move sparks mixed reaction Bioethicist wonders whether rule woul...
Saturday, April 6, 2019

Deceased organ donation: comparison of opt-in versus opt-out countries

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From Kidney International Article in Press Comparison of organ donation and transplantation rates between opt-out and opt-in systems ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Organ donation in Germany

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Spiegel.de has the story: Nach langem Abwärtstrend, Zahl der Organspender deutlich gestiegen (GT: After a long downward trend, the number...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Family consent and opt-in versus opt-out organ donation

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Here's a contribution to the discussion on how opt-out versus opt-in deceased donor laws might impact transplantation (as opposed to ju...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Presumed consent: too early to declare failure, but cautions are plentiful

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Frank McCormick points out a recent report in the journal Health Policy indicating that the Welsh move from opt-in to opt-out or (' dee...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

France introduces opt-out policy on organ donation

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The Guardian has the story: France introduces opt-out policy on organ donation Change in law means consent for organs to be removed is pr...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Opt out system for organ donors? Scotland opts to wait for evidence

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The Scotsman has the story:  Warning over opt-out organ system in Scotland "MOVING to an opt-out system of organ donation in Scotlan...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Organ donor registration in Israel

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Judd Kessler and I just got this email from Jacob Lavee (about whom I've written before ), with good news that he kindly gave me permis...