The government said that donating organs would remain a personal decision and that people would continue to be able to record their decision to opt out at any point.Gareth IacobucciThe BMJEULARRMD Open
As Wales prepares to become the first country of the United Kingdom to introduce an opt-out system for organ donation, a doctor writing in The BMJ this week, says support for such a system "is well intentioned but misguided." Adnan Sharif, a consultant nephrologist at Queen Elizabeth ...
Singapore has had an opt-out organ donation system since the inception of the Human Organ Transplant Act in 2009. This law allows all Singapore citizens and permanent residents to donate their organs after confirmation of brain death, usually in the setting of devastating brain injury or stroke ...
Questioned by BILD whether opt-out legislation might spark popular fears that a mandatory organ donation system was the next step, Spahn said that such concerns would have to be addressed calmly by policymakers with "good arguments in a broad debate." The 38-year-old noted that he had persona...
donation system, French law presumes all citizens and residents will be organ and tissue donors upon death unless they clearly opt out. After the reports from Kentucky reached France, the number joining that nation’s donation refusal registry jumped from about 100 people a day to 1,000 a ...
BERLIN, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Germany should switch to an opt-out system for organ donation to boost the number of organs available to those in need of transplants, according to a draft law presented by a group of parliamentarians in the German Bundestag on Monday. ...
摘要: The recent report of the UK government's Organ Donation Taskforce is in favour of continuing with the current organ donation system rather than changing to an opt-out system where people are assumed to be willing to donate. How did it reach this decision and is it correct?
An opt-out system for organ donation could be in place in England by early 2020, subject to parliamentary approval. The proposalsoutlined by the Governmentwould mean that adults would be considered as potential organ donors unless they have opted out of the donor register or are in an excluded...
The act institutes an "opt-out" system to organ donation, which functions on the idea of presumed consent. In its essence, this idea presumes that individuals have consented to having their organs harvested upon their death for transplantation into others in need of those organs. ...
Wednesday’s poll found that B.C. residents had the highest support for the opt-out system in the country, with 66 per cent compared to 63 per cent nationwide. Across Canada, 25 per cent of the 1,000 people surveyed said they probably or definitely opposed the opt-out system,...