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Organ Donation: Opt-In or Opt-Out?

posted by janrinok on Monday September 29 2014, @09:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-put-your-left-leg-in,-your-left-leg-out... dept.

n1 writes:

ScienceDaily reports:

Researchers say there should be an international database containing the very latest information about organ donations and transplants, so policy makers can make informed decisions on whether to adopt an opt-out or opt-in system.

The call comes after a study [in the UK], carried out by The University of Nottingham, the University of Stirling and Northumbria University, showed that overall an opt-out system might provide a greater number of organs for transplant but many factors can influence the success of either system and a repository of accessible information would help individual countries decide which one would be better for them.

The research published in the online academic journal BioMed Central Medicine (BMC Medicine), is the first international comparison that examines both deceased as well as living organ/transplant rates in opt-in and opt-out systems.

[...] Professor Fergusson argues that it is imperative for transplant organizations to routinely collect data on important organ donation indices -- consent type, procurement procedure, number of intensive care beds and trained surgeons -- and make this publicly available to inform future research and policy recommendations.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @05:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 30 2014, @05:22PM (#100061)

    And I extend that to blood. Know why I haven't given blood... because I am not that stupid!

    It's against the law to pay for blood for very good reason. The first people that donate blood for money are the people desperate for money. Those are drug addicts, homeless and destitute. These are people with most diseases that they are carrying and least likely to know about them. They will also try to scam the system anyway they can. For example, if they are denied under one name, they'll make up another name. Or donate multiple times under multiple names to multiple centers.

    You have to be pretty stupid not to know this.

  • (Score: 2) by strattitarius on Tuesday September 30 2014, @07:24PM

    by strattitarius (3191) on Tuesday September 30 2014, @07:24PM (#100093) Journal
    Please explain plasma, for which they pay pretty decent money? You must be pretty stupid to bring up that argument and leave it open to the most obvious retort. You must be the same dumb AC from the other thread.
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