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Kidney Donation From Live Donors Research Proposal

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Brown, J.B., Karley, M.L., Boudville, N., Bullas, N., Garg, A.M. & Muirhead, N. (2008). The experience of living kidney donors. Health and Social Work, 33(2), 93-94.

Authors provide an overview of recent trends in kidney donations in general and in Canada in particular. This goal of this qualitative study was to provide new insights concerning the decision-making processes and psychosocial issues that living kidney donors experience to identify ways to improve transplant programs by highlighting the special needs of living donors and to guide quality improvement. To this end, the researchers used a purposeful sampling of 12 living kidney donors (m=8; f=4) and a semi-structured interview format. Authors determined that there was a profound need for pre- and post-operative counseling as well as emotional support to help donors cope with the sense of loss involved.

Hippen, B. (2008). Organ sales in Iran: Is it worth a look? ReachMD. [Online]. Available:

http://www.reachmd.com/xmsegment.aspx?sid=3037.

In this online radio program, Dr. Hippen reports that Iran is the only country in the world where the practice of organ sales, including kidneys, is legal and notes that there is no shortage of organs needed for transplantation in this country. In fact, people in need of organs from other parts of the Middle East frequently travel to Iran to have the transplantation procedures conducted and suggests that legalizing organ sales in other countries bear closer scrutiny.

Ross, L.F., Siegler, M. & Thistlethwaite, J.R., Jr. (2007). We need a registry of living kidney donors. The Hastings Center Report, 37(6), 37.

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Based on this minimal failure rate, authors suggest that the living kidney donation process is safe, but long-term data concerning survival rates remains incomplete.
Morley, M.T. (2002). Proxy consent to organ donation by incompetents. Yale Law Journal,

111(5), 1215-1216.

Author provides a brief history of live kidney donations, statistics, and ethical issues involved, particularly when the donors are legally incompetent. Author notes that the first successful kidney transplant using a living human donor was performed in 1954 and since that time, more than 40,000 kidney transplants using live donors have been performed. Author also cites a dramatic gap between the number of recipients who are in desperate need and the number of available healthy kidneys from live donors that are available.

Unique model. (2007, Winter). The Wilson Quarterly, 31(1), 89-90.

Editors cite the enormous gap between the number of living kidney donors that are available vs. The demand for these organs and emphasize that approximately 18

people die in the United States every day while waiting for an organ transplant while another 93,000 continue to be listed on waiting lists. The majority of these organ recipients are in need of a kidney, but just 25% of the demand is currently being satisfied. Editors emphasize also that, "Nobody dies on a waiting list for a kidney transplant in Iran. An 'Iranian model' of "compensated donations" has achieved unique success in eliminating any waiting list for kidney transplants" (p.…

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Unique model. (2007, Winter). The Wilson Quarterly, 31(1), 89-90.

Editors cite the enormous gap between the number of living kidney donors that are available vs. The demand for these organs and emphasize that approximately 18

people die in the United States every day while waiting for an organ transplant while another 93,000 continue to be listed on waiting lists. The majority of these organ recipients are in need of a kidney, but just 25% of the demand is currently being satisfied. Editors emphasize also that, "Nobody dies on a waiting list for a kidney transplant in Iran. An 'Iranian model' of "compensated donations" has achieved unique success in eliminating any waiting list for kidney transplants" (p. 90).
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