The impact of presumed consent legislation on cadaveric organ donation
Subtitle: a cross country study
By: Alberto Abadie, Sebastien Gay.
Contributors: Gay, Sebastien.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10604; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10604.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Law and legislation.
Description: "In the U.S., Great Britain, and in many other countries, the gap between the demand and the supply of human organs for transplantation is on the rise, despite the efforts of governments and health agencies to promote donor registration.  In some countries of continental Europe, however, cadaveric organ procurement is based on the principle of presumed consent.  Under presumed consent legislation, a deceased individual is classified as a potential donor in absence of explicit opposition to donation before death.  This article analyzes the impact of presumed consent laws on donation rates.  For this purpose, we construct a dataset on organ donation rates and potential factors affecting organ donation for 22 countries over a 10-year period.  We find that while differences in other determinants of organ donation explain much of the variation in donation rates, after controlling for those determinants presumed consent legislation has a positive and sizeable effect on organ donation rates"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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