BACKGROUND For many of the end-stage organ diseases, organ transplantation is the most preferred treatment. The need for the organ transplantation is higher than the availability. For the transplantation program to be successful, awareness regarding organ donation is needed and people must have a positive attitude toward donating organs. AIM This study aims to assess the awareness and attitud...

BACKGROUND Many individuals are unwilling to become posthumous organ donors, resulting in a disparity between the supply and demand for organ transplants. A meta-synthesis of the qualitative literature was therefore conducted to determine how the general public views posthumous organ donation. METHODS Three online databases (PubMed, PsycINFO, Scopus) were searched for articles published betwe...

One policy tool that could be deployed to increase organ donation rates is legislative defaults. Currently, there are two legislative regimes: “informed consent”, in which an explicit declaration makes the person a potential organ donor; and “presumed consent”, in which an explicit declaration is required for not being a potential donor. In this study, we examine how an institutional setting, n...

The International Registry in Organ Donation and Transplantation (IRODaT) seeks to support the transplant community by providing up-to-date data on organ donation and transplantation worldwide at three different levels: national, regional, and Hospital. The database provides up-to-date information provided by a network of professionals directly involved in the various stages of the donation and...

OBJECTIVE The lack of consistency between peoples' attitudes toward organ donation and organ donation registration behavior has long perplexed scholars. Ajzen and Fishbein's principle of compatibility offers a potential explanation for the attitude-behavior discrepancy. This principle states that attitudes will better predict behavior if the specificity of a measured attitude matches the specif...

We aimed to define the demographic characteristics, clinical features and outcome of patients with brain death, and to emphasize the importance of organ donation from children. Data for the period from September 2009 to October 2012 were collected retrospectively. Twenty children who were diagnosed as brain death were included. Data including demographics, major cause leading to brain death, du...

For the majority of scholars concerned with the ethics of living organ donation, inflicting moderate harms on competent volunteers in order to save the lives or increase the life chances of others is held to be justifiable provided certain conditions are met. These conditions tend to include one, or more commonly, some combination of the following: (1) The living donor provides valid consent to...

Recent advances in the fields of organ donation and organ transplant have introduced new hope for the treatment of serious diseases. However, this promise has been accompanied by several issues. The most common issue raised is ethical implications, but in a multicultural society like Malaysia, additional concerns arise pertaining to social and religious issues. These concerns needs to be addres...

Unmet demand for organ transplantation is, in part, a result of low rates of organ donation. While the transplant community works diligently to improve rates of organ donation, patients on waiting lists for transplantation continue to die. This article reviews factors that are associated with rates of organ donation at U.S. hospitals. We analyzed two years of data on the numbers of actual and p...