1. Age limitation for organ transplantation: the Israeli example
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Eyal Katvan, Tamar Ashkenazi, Michal Carmiel-Haggai, Boaz Shnoor, Hagai Boas, Jacob Lavee, Israel Doron, and Michal Dranitzki Elhalel
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Gerontology ,Adult ,Aging ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,Adolescent ,Policy making ,MEDLINE ,030230 surgery ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,Age limit ,Organ transplantation ,Health Services Accessibility ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,medicine ,Humans ,Young adult ,Israel ,Policy Making ,Aged ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,Age Factors ,06 humanities and the arts ,General Medicine ,Organ Transplantation ,Middle Aged ,Tissue Donors ,Transplant Recipients ,Transplantation ,Christian ministry ,060301 applied ethics ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,Listing (finance) ,business - Abstract
In 2013 the Israeli Ministry of Health appointed a public committee to examine the policy of placing an age limitation on candidates listed for organ transplantation. The committee rejected the use of an age limit criterion for listing candidates for transplantation and recommended to abolish it. However, opinions differed regarding the use of recipients’ age in shaping a fair organ allocation policy. The committee's recommendations were adopted and put into force as of April 2014. This article unfolds the committee deliberations on accommodating values of formal equality for optimising the use of organ transplantation.
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- 2016