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Family overrule of registered refusal to donate organs
- Source :
- J Intensive Care Soc, Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 21(2), 179-182. Stansted News Ltd
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2019.
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Abstract
- It is well known that families frequently overrule the wishes of dying patients who had previously expressed a wish to donate their organs. Various strategies have been suggested to reduce the frequency of these ‘family overrules’. However, the possibility of families overruling a patient’s registered decision not to donate has not been discussed in the medical literature, although it is legally possible in some countries. In this article, we provide an ethical analysis of family overrule of a relative’s refusal to donate, using the different jurisdictions of the UK, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands to provide some context. Despite some asymmetries between overruling consent and overruling refusal, there are some cases in which donation should proceed despite a recorded refusal to do so.
- Subjects :
- business.industry
Wish
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
Context (language use)
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Critical Care Nursing
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Law
Donation
Special Articles
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
business
Ethical analysis
Medical literature
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17511437
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the Intensive Care Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....192759ae4f723642a1bd053a1997de48