全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): State organ donation incentives under the National Organ Transplant Act

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来源类型	Journal Publication
规范类型	其他
	State organ donation incentives under the National Organ Transplant Act
	Sally Satel; Joshua C. Morrison; Rick K. Jones
发表日期	2014-12-11
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Our current transplant regime is a qualified failure. Transplant operations have been basically flat for the last eight years. In 2013, over 4300 people died while waiting and about 3000 were permanently removed from the queue because they developed a medical condition that precluded transplant. Twenty-seven years ago, the average wait for a deceased-donor kidney in the United States was about one year; now, the average wait is approaching five years. In many parts of the country it has reached a ten-year wait from listing to transplant–if one can survive that long. Maximizing deceased donation, although a worthy effort, is not a definitive solution to the organ shortage. Of the roughly two million Americans who die annually, only 10,500 to 13, 800, representing less than one percent of all deaths each year, possess organs healthy enough for transplanting. Moreover, when unaware of the preference of their loved ones, only about half of families give permission for the organs to be retrieved at death. The number of deceased donors in 2012 as reported by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)–about 7400–is consistent with these realities. The built-in constraint on the number of potentially transplantable posthumous kidneys also underscores why a “presumed-consent” law is unlikely to yield the huge windfall of transplantable kidneys that would be needed to solve our organ shortage. More is needed.
主题	Health Care
标签	organ donation
URL	https://www.aei.org/research-products/journal-publication/state-organ-donation-incentives-national-organ-transplant-act/
来源智库	American Enterprise Institute (United States)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/209103
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sally Satel,Joshua C. Morrison,Rick K. Jones. State organ donation incentives under the National Organ Transplant Act. 2014.