Ethical and legal issues in non-heart-beating organ donation

Transplantation

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1143-1147

  Bos, Michael A ^a,b,c,d  

^a Health Council of the Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^b EUROTRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^c Dutch Transplant Foundation   (Netherlands)

^d Health Council of the Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Donation; Ethics of transplantation; Organ procurement; Preservation; Psychosocial and economic aspects of transplantation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHICS; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY PRESERVATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER PRESERVATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NETHERLANDS; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

CADAVER; EUROPE; FAMILY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; NETHERLANDS; ORGAN PRESERVATION; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18644372521     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000160761.86036.6C     Document Type: Conference Paper

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