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.
Publisher:
The National Academies Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xii, 158 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
Ethical framework -- Legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks for organ donation and research participation -- Research approval, implementation, and oversight : ensuring quality and trust.
Summary:
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--Publishers website.
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