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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796350703321

Titolo

Opportunities for organ donor intervention research : saving lives by improving the quality and quantity of organs for transplantation / / Committee on Issues in Organ Donor Intervention Research, James F. Childress, Sarah Domnitz, and Catharyn T. Liverman, editors, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Health and Medicine Division, a Consensus Study Report of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, United States : , : The National Academies Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-309-46490-0

0-309-46488-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Consensus Study Report

Disciplina

362.17830973

Soggetti

Organ donors - Research - United States

Organ donors - Research - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Donation of organs, tissues, etc - Government policy - United States

Donation of organs, tissues, etc - Law and legislation - United States

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Opportunities for Organ Donor Intervention Research focuses on the ethical, legal, regulatory, policy, and organizational issues relevant to the conduct of research in the United States involving deceased organ donors. This report provides recommendations for how to conduct organ donor intervention research in a manner that maintains high ethical standards, that ensures dignity and respect for deceased organ donors and their families, that provides transparency and information for transplant candidates who might receive a research organ, and that supports and sustains the public's trust in the process of organ donation and transplantation--