| Title |
Organ Shortage: The Greatest Challenge Facing Transplant Medicine
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|---|---|
| Published in |
World Journal of Surgery, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00268-014-2639-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David Shafran, Eric Kodish, Andreas Tzakis |
| Abstract |
The success of organ transplantation as a treatment for end-stage organ disease has yielded a series of ethical quandaries originating from the issue of organ shortage. Scarcity of organs for transplantation necessitates formulation of just and fair allocation policies as well as ethically viable solutions to bridging the vast gap between organ supply and demand. The concept of "triage" provides a useful paradigm in which to contextualize the organ shortage issue. This entails subjugating the welfare of the individual patient for the benefit of the wider community as an ethically justified response to the challenge of scarcity. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Norway | 1 | 100% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 74 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 12% |
| Researcher | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 10 | 13% |
| Unknown | 21 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 28% |
| Engineering | 9 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 18% |
| Unknown | 19 | 25% |
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