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- Title
Potential Number of Organ Donors After Euthanasia in Belgium.
- Authors
Bollen, Jan; van Mook, Walther; van Smaalen, Tim; ten Hoopen, Rankie; van Heurn, Ernst; Ysebaert, Dirk
- Abstract
The article focuses on organ donation by patients deciding to take up euthanasia in Belgium and Netherlands. It discusses how the donation has to be done after circulatory death, the permission granted by the Belgian Control and Evaluation Committee, and the exclusion of older patients, cancer patients and patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
- Subjects
ORGAN donation; EUTHANASIA; DEATH; OLDER patients; CANCER patients
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2017, Vol 317, Issue 14, p1476
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2017.0729