Deceased organ donation: In praise of pragmatism

Clinical Ethics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 164-165

  Brazier, Margaret ^a   Quigley, Muireann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992904111     PISSN: 14777509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/147775007783560111     Document Type: Editorial

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1. In 2005-06 483 people on the transplant list died before an organ became available. Transplant Activity in the UK 2005-2006. Bristol: NHS Blood and Transplant, 2006
2. See www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/seminars/transplantseminars/index.html
3. Department of Health. On the state of public health: Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2006. London: Department of Health, 2006:33
4. UK Transplant. Potential Donor Audit: 36 Month Summary Report. p.3. See www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/statistics/potential_donor_audit/pdf/ pda_36_month_summary_report.pdf (last checked 19 September 2007)
5. UK Transplant. Potential Donor Audit: 36 Month Summary Report. p.3. See www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/statistics/potential_donor_audit/pdf/ pda_36_month_summary_report.pdf (last checked 19 September 2007)
6. UK Transplant. Potential Donor Audit: 36 Month Summary Report. p.8. See www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/statistics/potential_donor_audit/pdf/ pda_36_month_summary_report.pdf (last checked 19 September 2007)
7. UK Transplant. Potential Donor Audit: 36 Month Summary Report. p.2 and p.7. See www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/statistics/potential_donor_ audit/pdf/pda_36_month_summary_report.pdf (last checked 19 September 2007)
8. These figures represent the number of patients who became actual donors as a percentage of the possible brain stem dead and non-heart beating donors and are based on the figures given in UK Transplant. Potential Donor Audit: 36 Month Summary Report. p.3 and p.8. See www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/statistics/potential_donor_audit/pdf/ pda_36_month_summary_report.pdf (last checked 19 September 2007)
9. Data for 2006 available on the website of Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT). See http://www.ont.es/Estadistica?accion=1&id_ nodo=19&id_estadistica=48&perfil= (last checked 12 September 2007)