BACKGROUND There is a discrepancy between demand and supply of donor organs for kidney transplantation. Health care providers can influence the willingness to donate or hold an organ donor card. It is unclear how educated current and future health care professionals are about organ donation and what constitutes their attitude toward this topic. METHODS The authors conducted a cross-sectional ...

Governments should issue tax credits for organ donations to ensure that bereaved families honor donor’s wishes, says an ethicist and visiting fellow at the Université de Montréal in Québec. If an advocate acting on behalf of a deceased donor received a modest tax credit, fewer donations would be “vetoed” by family members and people would be more likely to discuss organ donation with their love...

Brain-dead donor organ transplantation has been available to children in Japan since the 2010 revision of the Organ Transplant Law. Of the 50-60 brain-dead donor organ transplants performed annually in Japan, however, very few (0-4 per year) are performed in children. Again, while those receiving liver, heart, and kidney transplants are reported to fare better than their counterparts in the res...

OBJECTIVE The lack of consistency between peoples' attitudes toward organ donation and organ donation registration behavior has long perplexed scholars. Ajzen and Fishbein's principle of compatibility offers a potential explanation for the attitude-behavior discrepancy. This principle states that attitudes will better predict behavior if the specificity of a measured attitude matches the specif...

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