TY - JOUR
T1 - Incentives for organ donation
T2 - Proposed standards for an internationally acceptable system
AU - Working Group on Incentives for Living Donation
AU - Matas, Arthur J.
AU - Satel, Sally
AU - Munn, Stephen
AU - Richards, Janet Radcliffe
AU - Tan-Alora, Angeles
AU - Ambagtsheer, Frederike J.A.E.
AU - Asis, Micheal D.H.
AU - Baloloy, Leo
AU - Cole, Edward
AU - Crippin, Jeff
AU - Cronin, David
AU - Daar, Abdallah S.
AU - Eason, James
AU - Fine, Richard
AU - Florman, Sander
AU - Freeman, Richard
AU - Fung, John
AU - Gaertner, Wulf
AU - Gaston, Robert
AU - Ghahramani, Nasrollah
AU - Ghods, Ahad
AU - Goodwin, Michelle
AU - Gutmann, Thomas
AU - Hakim, Nadey
AU - Hippen, Benjamin
AU - Huilgol, Ajit
AU - Kam, Igal
AU - Lamban, Arlene
AU - Land, Walter
AU - Langnas, Alan
AU - Lesaca, Reynaldo
AU - Levy, Gary
AU - Liquette, Rose Marie
AU - Marks, William H.
AU - Miller, Charles
AU - Ona, Enrique
AU - Pamugas, Glenda
AU - Paraiso, Antonio
AU - Peters, Thomas G.
AU - Price, David
AU - Randhawa, Gurch
AU - Reed, Alan
AU - Rigg, Keith
AU - Serrano, Dennis
AU - Sollinger, Hans
AU - Sundar, Sankaran
AU - Teperman, Lewis
AU - van Dijk, Gert
AU - Weimar, Willem
AU - Danguilan, Romina
PY - 2012/2/1
Y1 - 2012/2/1
N2 - Incentives for organ donation, currently prohibited in most countries, may increase donation and save lives. Discussion of incentives has focused on two areas: (1) whether or not there are ethical principles that justify the current prohibition and (2) whether incentives would do more good than harm. We herein address the second concern and propose for discussion standards and guidelines for an acceptable system of incentives for donation. We believe that if systems based on these guidelines were developed, harms would be no greater than those to today's conventional donors. Ultimately, until there are trials of incentives, the question of benefits and harms cannot be satisfactorily answered.
AB - Incentives for organ donation, currently prohibited in most countries, may increase donation and save lives. Discussion of incentives has focused on two areas: (1) whether or not there are ethical principles that justify the current prohibition and (2) whether incentives would do more good than harm. We herein address the second concern and propose for discussion standards and guidelines for an acceptable system of incentives for donation. We believe that if systems based on these guidelines were developed, harms would be no greater than those to today's conventional donors. Ultimately, until there are trials of incentives, the question of benefits and harms cannot be satisfactorily answered.
KW - Incentives
KW - organ donation
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03881.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03881.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 22176925
AN - SCOPUS:84856475041
SN - 1600-6135
VL - 12
SP - 306
EP - 312
JO - American Journal of Transplantation
JF - American Journal of Transplantation
IS - 2
ER -