Routine Inquiry about Organ Donation — An Alternative to Presumed Consent
- 24 October 1991
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 325 (17) , 1246-1249
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199110243251711
Abstract
AS of April 1991, there were 22,842 people in the United States on the waiting lists for organs for transplantation.1 The list is getting longer each year. Many patients die waiting for organs. Others must be maintained on dialysis for want of a transplantable kidney. It is understandable that some people are growing impatient with the system of voluntary donation embodied in the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act — a law that requires specific consent for donation and that has been in place now for two decades.2 The idea of presuming that the deceased person would consent to the use of . . .Keywords
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