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Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action
Allocating and distributing organs, 95
access to immunosuppressive medications following transplantation, 95
equitable access to transplantation, 95
Allosensitization, 59
Altruism, cultural norms and models of willingness to donate, 70 –71
AMA. See American Medical Association
American Board for Transplant Certification (ABTC), 99
American Heart Association (AHA), 153 –154 , 156
American Medical Association (AMA), 197 , 214 , 225 , 250 , 257
American Nurses Association, 197
American Society of Transplant Physicians (ASTP), 133
American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), 33 , 188 , 249 , 252
American Society of Transplantation (AST), 33 , 188
AOPO. See Association of Organ Procurement Organizations
Appeals. See Acceptable appeals
Arguments for and against preferred-access approaches, 254 –258
the adverse selection problem, 256 –257
the information problem, 256
the unfair allocation problem, 257 –258
Arizona, 186 , 302
Arkansas, 194
Asian Americans, 65 , 196
Asian-Pacific Islanders, 195
Assessment of DCDD strategies in the United States, 141 –143
DCDD cases reported by OPOs, 143
deceased donors, 142
organs recovered from DCDD donors in the U.S., 143
Assessment of presumed-consent policies, 212 –224
autonomy-based arguments, 218 –219
chances of a presumed-consent policy being adopted in the U.S., 222 –224
cost-effectiveness, 216
effectiveness in increasing the number of transplantable organs, 212 –216
individual generosity, societal generosity, and mutual self-interest, 221 –222
justice and fairness, 219 –221
possible benefits of and barriers to presumed-consent policies, 223
reducing the burden of familial decision making, 216 –218
Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO), 5 , 21 , 33 , 97 , 99 , 119 , 136
AST. See American Society of Transplantation
ASTP. See American Society of Transplant Physicians
ASTS. See American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Austria, 27
Autonomy-based arguments, 218 –219
B
Barriers, to a futures market, 234 –235
Behavioral interventions, 300 –301
Belgium, 27 , 217
Brain function, controversy over, 146
Breakthrough collaborative model, 103 .
See also Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaboratives;
Organ Transplantation Breakthrough Collaborative;
Transplantation breakthrough collaboratives
British Medical Association, 222 n
Buying and selling of organs, 239 –242
advantages of the gift model, 240 –241
claims of a liberty right to sell organs, 241 –242
C
California Transplant Donor Network, 109
Candidates on the transplant waiting list, growth in numbers of, 2 , 16
Cannulation, 133 , 310.
Cardiac arrests, 138 , 286 –287 , 308
Cardiac life-support efforts, criteria for termination of advanced, 132
CDC. See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDD. See Circulatory determination of death
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 8 , 198 –199