Views on deceased organ donation in the Netherlands: A q-methodology study

Worldwide variability in deceased organ donation registries

The variability in deceased organ donation registries worldwide has received little attention. We considered all operating registries, where individual wishes about organ donation were recorded in a computerized database. We included registries which recorded an individual's decision to be a donor (donor registry), and registries which only recorded an individual's objection (non-donor registry...

Aspects of deceased organ donation in paediatrics.

Organ transplantation offers children in acute or chronic severe organ failure similar opportunities to adults. However, while the number who might benefit is relatively low, significantly fewer cadaveric donors exist for any given child compared with an adult. Incompatible organ size and relatively low donation rates mean that despite living parental donation and innovations to reduce donated ...

Deceased and living organ donation in Iran.

We have read the article written by AlKhawari et al. (1) published in the June 2005 issue of this journal with full interest. The authors have quoted sentences with reference to our article (2). Because certain phrases may be confusing to some readers, we would like to elucidate a few points. The authors stated that ‘Donation is sanctioned by religious and national law in Iran (although there i...

Islamic Views on Organ Donation Transplantation

Incentivizing deceased organ donation: a Swedish priority-setting perspective.

AIMS The established deceased organ donation models in many countries, relying chiefly on altruism, have failed to motivate a sufficient number of donors. As a consequence organs that could save lives are routinely missed leading to a growing gap between demand and supply. The aim of this paper is twofold; firstly to develop a proposal for compensated deceased organ donation that could potentia...