TY - JOUR
T1 - Public policy, public opinion, and consent for organ donation
AU - Siminoff, Laura A.
AU - Mercer, Mary Beth
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Medical advances in transplantation techniques have driven an exponential increase in the demand for transplantable organs. Unfortunately, policy efforts to bolster the organ supply have been less than effective, failing to provide a stopgap for ever-increasing numbers of patients who await organ transplantation. The number of registrations on waiting lists exceeded 65,245 in early 1999, a 325% increase over the 20,000 that existed 11 years earlier in 1988. Regrettably, more than 4,000 patients die each year while awaiting transplantation.
AB - Medical advances in transplantation techniques have driven an exponential increase in the demand for transplantable organs. Unfortunately, policy efforts to bolster the organ supply have been less than effective, failing to provide a stopgap for ever-increasing numbers of patients who await organ transplantation. The number of registrations on waiting lists exceeded 65,245 in early 1999, a 325% increase over the 20,000 that existed 11 years earlier in 1988. Regrettably, more than 4,000 patients die each year while awaiting transplantation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0035538801&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0963180101004042
DO - 10.1017/S0963180101004042
M3 - Article
C2 - 14533404
AN - SCOPUS:0035538801
SN - 0963-1801
VL - 10
SP - 377
EP - 386
JO - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
JF - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
IS - 4
ER -
