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Compensation for kidney donors? Opt in or opt out? The BBC and The Rift revisit the debates.(featuring Sally Satel and Frank McCormick)

The BBC covers the shortage of transplantable organs, and reviews the debate about compensating liv…

Alex Chan on deceased organ donation policy, in JAMA

Alex Chan comments on an earlier article in JAMA: US Organ Donation Policy Alex Chan, January 21, 2…

Rates of organ donation in countries with presumed consent versus those with explicit consent

Here's an illuminating figure from the 2018 paper Organ Donation and Transplantation in Canada …

How is the U.S. opt in system of organ donation doing compared to an opt out system? Alex Glazier and Tom Mone in JAMA

Alex Glazier and Tom Mone run, respectively, the big Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) in New …

Organ donation by opt-out versus opt-in deceased donor registration (no significant effect on transplants)

In the June issue of Kidney International, there's a meta-study of organ transplantation rates …

Nova Scotia moves towards presumed consent for organ donation

The CBC is following the story: Nova Scotia's opt-out organ donation move sparks mixed reaction…

Deceased organ donation: comparison of opt-in versus opt-out countries

From Kidney International Article in Press Comparison of organ donation and transplantation rates b…

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