Life or Death for the Dead-Donor Rule?
Life or Death for the Dead-Donor Rule?
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United States: Massachusetts Medical Society
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English
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United States: Massachusetts Medical Society
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Several scholars have proposed permitting dying patients who are beyond harm to donate organs before death. But such a shift away from the dead-donor rule could lead to lost trust in physicians, reduced confidence in the organ-donation system, and a decline in organ donation.
The increasing disproportion between the supply of donor organs and th...
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Life or Death for the Dead-Donor Rule?
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1443405182
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1443405182
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0028-4793
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1533-4406
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10.1056/NEJMp1308078
