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When the Living and the Deceased Cannot Agree on Organ Donation: A Survey of US Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs)

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Transplantation, January 2014
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Title
When the Living and the Deceased Cannot Agree on Organ Donation: A Survey of US Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs)
Published in
American Journal of Transplantation, January 2014
DOI 10.1111/ajt.12519
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Authors

W.J. Chon, M.A. Josephson, E.J. Gordon, Y.T. Becker, P. Witkowski, D.J. Arwindekar, A. Naik, J.R. Thistlethwaite, C. Liao, L.F. Ross

Abstract

The legal concept of first person authorization (FPA) is based on the principle that a decision by a person with decision-making capacity should be respected even after he or she dies. Although the transplant community largely supports this concept, its implementation has not been universal. We conducted a web-based survey of all 58 Organ Procurement Organization (OPO)executive directors in the United States to assess OPOs' procurement policies and practices in the context of family objections. All 58 respondents(100%) responded to our survey. All OPOs except one have an online donor registration website. Most OPOs(89%) (51 of 57 respondents) estimated that the frequency of family objecting to organ donation in cases of registered donors was <10%. No OPOs reported the frequency to be higher than 25%. Only 50% (27 of 54) of the OPOs have a written policy on handling family objections. Approximately 80% of the OPOs reported honoring FPA. However, in the past 5 years, 20 OPOs (35%) have not yet participated in organ procurement from a registered deceased donor over family objection. Further research to identify the barriers and possible solutions to implementing FPA is warranted.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Argentina 1 3%
Unknown 33 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 26%
Student > Bachelor 8 23%
Researcher 4 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 11%
Other 3 9%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 3 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 29%
Social Sciences 6 17%
Philosophy 2 6%
Engineering 2 6%
Chemistry 2 6%
Other 7 20%
Unknown 6 17%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 74. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 December 2020.
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#574,932
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#1
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