Can we turn down autonomous wishes to donate anonymously?

Transplant International

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1164-1169

  Hilhorst, Medard ^a   Wijsbek, Henri ^b   Erdman, Ruud ^c   Metselaar, Herold ^c   Van Dijk, Gert ^c   Zuidema, Willij ^c   Weimar, Willem ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

altruistic donation; anonymous donation; autonomy; living kidney donation; living liver donation; risks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DONOR SELECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALTRUISM; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MOTIVATION; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 80755153214     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2011.01333.x     Document Type: Article

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