Non-referral of potential organ donors in South Africa: insights, challenges and ethical dilemmas

Traditionally, minimal potential organ donor referrals emanate from general medicine departments. We use a clinical vignette to draw attention to challenges related to referral of potential organ donors from general internal medicine departments. In addition, we provide potential solutions to overco...

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Autores principales: Naidoo, Poobalan, Etheredge, Harriet Rosanne, Rambiritch, Virendra, Singh, Akira, Mahoney, Scott, Naidu, Vanesha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30100977
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.29.223.14756
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author Naidoo, Poobalan
Etheredge, Harriet Rosanne
Rambiritch, Virendra
Singh, Akira
Mahoney, Scott
Naidu, Vanesha
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description Traditionally, minimal potential organ donor referrals emanate from general medicine departments. We use a clinical vignette to draw attention to challenges related to referral of potential organ donors from general internal medicine departments. In addition, we provide potential solutions to overcome challenges and reflect on the ethical issues of non-referral of potential organ donors. It is hoped that this paper will increase the awareness of organ donation in the medical fraternity in Africa and thus mitigate critical shortages of organs for transplantation.
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spelling pubmed-60809662018-08-10 Non-referral of potential organ donors in South Africa: insights, challenges and ethical dilemmas Naidoo, Poobalan Etheredge, Harriet Rosanne Rambiritch, Virendra Singh, Akira Mahoney, Scott Naidu, Vanesha Pan Afr Med J Perspectives Traditionally, minimal potential organ donor referrals emanate from general medicine departments. We use a clinical vignette to draw attention to challenges related to referral of potential organ donors from general internal medicine departments. In addition, we provide potential solutions to overcome challenges and reflect on the ethical issues of non-referral of potential organ donors. It is hoped that this paper will increase the awareness of organ donation in the medical fraternity in Africa and thus mitigate critical shortages of organs for transplantation. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6080966/ /pubmed/30100977 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.29.223.14756 Text en © Poobalan Naidoo et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Non-referral of potential organ donors in South Africa: insights, challenges and ethical dilemmas
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