OBJECTIVE The emergence of evidence suggests that student nurses commonly exhibit concerns about their lack of knowledge of organ donation and transplantation. Formal training about organ donation has been shown to positively influence attitude, encourage communication and registration behaviours and improve knowledge about donor eligibility and brain death. The focus of this study was to deter...

Along with ethical considerations, compelling an individual to donate organs, tissues, or bodily fluids brings several legal doctrines into conflict. The privacy of one's body is generally considered sacrosanct by American courts, which have upheld a competent adult's right to refuse medical procedures, even in cases when they are necessary to save the life of another. Although medical and lega...

We examined the instability of organ donation decisions made by next-of-kin and factors that predict whether nondonors wish they had consented to donation. Next-of-kin of donor-eligible individuals from one organ procurement organization participated in a semistructured telephone interview. Participants were asked if they would make the same decision if they had to make it again today. Of the 1...

In September 2019, a two-day workshop ahead of the Southern African Transplantation Society congress brought together South champions for organ donation and leaders from International Organ Donation Procurement (ISODP) at high-level focused on creating national strategy roadmap to improve in Africa. The full report is available via supplementary materials Journal Nephrology website.

Improving the consent rate for solid organ donation from deceased donors is a key component of strategies in the UK and other countries to increase the availability of organs for transplantation. In the UK, the law is currently clear on what forms consent may take, with the views of the individual expressed previously in life taking priority. Such views may have been expressed prospectively, vi...

In the Philippines, organ donation is regulated under Organ Donation Act (RA7170) and promoted by Department of Health through Philippine Network for Sharing (PHILNOS). The number donors to meet increasing demand in country continues lag. emergency department (ED) was identified several foreign studies be a significant source successful donation. This action research project investigated attitu...