American Medical Association issues statement on the ethics of providing incentives to donate organs.Ethics in Brief: Organ donation Organ donation is the removal of the tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the purpose of transplanting or grafting them into other persons. incentives South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. created a stir nationally when a state lawmaker proposed giving inmates time off their sentences in exchange for organ or marrow donation. The legislator, and many others, argued that incentives provided a means to increase donations in a badly stressed system. Certainly, the organ donation system in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. is not meeting the needs of those requiring new tissue. With more than 96,000 patients on waiting lists, federal and state governments are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to increase donations. Ethical obligations should help shape these organ donation programs. There is great concern that incentives will distort the system, and although time off of prison sentences is not a monetary benefit, it can have the same coercive effect. Recent AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. policy notes the controversy surrounding solicitation for directed donation directed donation Transfusion medicine The donation of blood products for use by a designated recipient; pre-AIDS DDs were carried for 1. Donor-specific transfusions prior to renal transplantation 2. Platelet pheresis transfusions 3. , but also recognizes that there may not be an ethical problem if a system of solicitation increases the total number of organs available while not reasonably disadvantaging those on the waiting list. This policy and other AMA policies for donation prohibit payment for donation of organs, but note that donors should be fairly compensated for travel, medical care and time taken from work. More AMA ethics policies related to incentives to donate can be found online at: http://enews.ama-assn.org/UM/T.asp?A40.442.4338.39.372183 |
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