Showing posts with label opt out. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opt out. Show all posts
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Opt out organ donation in England and the Netherlands

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  Jansen, N. E., Williment, C., Haase-Kromwijk, B. J. J. M., & Gardiner, D. (2022). Changing to an Opt Out System for Organ Donation—Re...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Covid has slowed transplants in the UK

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The Evening Standard has the story: Organ transplant waiting list jumps to five-year high due to pandemic, new NHS figures show by Naomi Ack...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Deceased organ donation by presumed consent, when families must also consent

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Presumed consent to be an organ donor becomes complicated when the next of kin of the deceased potential donor must also consent: Costa-F...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Netherlands now has opt out deceased donor registration

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The Netherlands Times has the story: NEW DONOR REGISTRY OPT-OUT RULE TAKES EFFECT TODAY By Janene Pieters on Wednesday, 1 July 2020 &...
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...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Wales' organ donation opt-out law has not increased donors--BBC

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Here's the story from the BBC: Wales' organ donation opt-out law has not increased donors " Wales' opt-out system for o...
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...