Increasing Organ Donation in Hispanic Americans
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Organ donation breakthrough collaborative: increasing organ donation through system redesign.
Virginia McBride and Jade Perdue are public health analysts in the Division of Transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville, Md. Organ donation saves lives. The use of organ transplantation to treat people with end-stage organ failure is both medically effective and cost-effective and is now considered mainstr...
متن کاملEffect of community educational interventions on rate of organ donation among Hispanic Americans.
IMPORTANCE The need for suitable organs for transplantation is especially pronounced in minority populations such as Hispanic Americans owing to disproportionately high rates of diabetes mellitus and kidney disease. Considerable barriers exist for Hispanic Americans consent to donation, resulting in significantly lower donation rates compared with white individuals. OBJECTIVE To investigate t...
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The greatest challenge for transplantation is the significant disparity in the number of organs available relative to the demand. African Americans in particular are disproportionately represented on the national transplantwaiting list for amyriad of reasons. Although accounting for merely 13% of the national population (1), African Americans comprise 30% of the 123,000 waitlist candidates (2)....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2168-6254
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.3967