Explicit or presumed consent and organ donation post-mortem: Does it matter?

Medicine and Law

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 575-583

  Janssen, Anke ^a   Gevers, Sjef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Explicit consent; Organ donation; Presumed consent; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BELGIUM; CADAVER DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; ITALY; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NETHERLANDS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REGISTER; RELATIVE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 25844529395     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (12)

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2. See also the WHO Guiding Principles on Human Organ Transplantation (Geneva 1990): "Organs may be removed from the bodies of deceased persons for the purpose of transplantation if (a) any consents required by law are obtained, and (b) there is no reason to believe that the deceased person objected to such removal, in the absence of any formal consent given during the person's lifetime."
3. The national transplantation law as proposed has been adopted by the 'Nationalrat' and 'Ständerat' in October 2004 but has not yet come into force.
4. See for similar observations e.g.: Gäbel H., 'How Presumed Is Presumed Consent', Transplantation Proceedings (28) 1996, p. 27-30.
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