The Prospective Organ Transplant Donor

Problems and Prospects of Medical Innovation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13629626
AutoresRoberta G Simmons (autor de correspondencia), Julie Fulton, Robert Fulton, Robert L Fulton
Año1973
Volumen3
Número4
Páginas319-339
Fecha de publicación1973-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/2rmp-lw1c-hyru-32tw
OpenAlexW1999414546
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas20

With increased sophistication of medical technology and the consequent expansion in the number of organ transplants, the complex of issues involving recipient, donor–related and unrelated–and physician becomes crucial. This discussion is based on preliminary findings of two studies being conducted at the University of Minnesota: (1) a review of 79 kidney transplant cases to examine stress on family when decisions of choosing a donor arise; (2) an analysis of attitudinal characteristics of 82 persons who have considered volunteering their organs for transplantation in the event of their death. Results of these studies reveal often dramatic consequences for those immediately involved, and uncover attitudes in the population sampled which bear on the future of available organs for transplantation

Environmental health · Intensive care medicine · Kidney transplantation · Organ transplantation · Population · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Medicine · Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments · Surgery · Transplantation