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Safe and ethical living kidney donation in Qatar: A national health system's approach

The increasing incidence of end-stage kidney disease in Qatar has led to growing demand for donor kidneys. The deceased donor kidney program has yet to achieve its full potential; hence, living kidney donation has been widely adopted as an appropriate alternative. The reliance on living kidney donor...

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Autores principales: Asim, Muhammad, Al-Maslamani, Yousuf, Al-Malki, Hassan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: HBKU Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5526057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28795019
http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2017.3
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description The increasing incidence of end-stage kidney disease in Qatar has led to growing demand for donor kidneys. The deceased donor kidney program has yet to achieve its full potential; hence, living kidney donation has been widely adopted as an appropriate alternative. The reliance on living kidney donors however, raises a number of social, ethical, and legal concerns surrounding informed consent, voluntarism, psychosocial evaluation, perioperative care, and long-term follow-up of living kidney donors. Many of these concerns become heightened in a multicultural, multilingual society within a Gulf country such as Qatar. This article provides an insight into the challenges that living kidney donation poses in a multiethnic society with significant socioeconomic divides. It also discusses the remedial measures that the Qatari government, healthcare authorities, and transplant community have adopted to address these issues.
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spelling pubmed-55260572017-08-09 Safe and ethical living kidney donation in Qatar: A national health system's approach Asim, Muhammad Al-Maslamani, Yousuf Al-Malki, Hassan Qatar Med J Commentary The increasing incidence of end-stage kidney disease in Qatar has led to growing demand for donor kidneys. The deceased donor kidney program has yet to achieve its full potential; hence, living kidney donation has been widely adopted as an appropriate alternative. The reliance on living kidney donors however, raises a number of social, ethical, and legal concerns surrounding informed consent, voluntarism, psychosocial evaluation, perioperative care, and long-term follow-up of living kidney donors. Many of these concerns become heightened in a multicultural, multilingual society within a Gulf country such as Qatar. This article provides an insight into the challenges that living kidney donation poses in a multiethnic society with significant socioeconomic divides. It also discusses the remedial measures that the Qatari government, healthcare authorities, and transplant community have adopted to address these issues. HBKU Press 2017-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5526057/ /pubmed/28795019 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2017.3 Text en © 2017 Asim, Al-Maslamani, Al-Malki, licensee HBKU Press. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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