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from the you-put-your-left-leg-in,-your-left-leg-out... dept.
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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by davester666 on Tuesday September 30 2014, @06:42AM
It should be opt-out, and the individual "donating" gets the final say.
Here in Canada it is beyond stupid.
You can indicate on your drivers license, spray paint it on your car, put it in your will, sign the form going into a hospital, go into court and declare it to a judge that you want to donate your organs when you die. Then you die. All that work you put in, worthless.
They have to ask whomever shows up at the hospital, in presumably one of the worst moments of their lives, if it's ok to harvest organs from you.