Impact of new legislation on presumed consent on organ donation on liver transplant in Singapore: A preliminary analysis

Transplantation

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1234-1237

  Low, How Cheng ^a   Costa, Maureen Da ^a   Prabhakaran, Krishnan ^a   Kaur, Manjit ^a   Wee, Aileen ^b   Lim, Seng Gee ^a,c   Wai, Chun Tao ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Legislation; Organ procurement; Organ recovery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN ORGAN TRANSPLANT ACT; INFORMED CONSENT; LAW; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESUMED CONSENT; SINGAPORE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 33750998778     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000236720.66204.16     Document Type: Article

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