Transplant eligibility for patients with affective and psychotic disorders: a review of practices and a call for justice

Transplant eligibility for patients with affective and psychotic disorders: a review of practices and a call for justice

Abstract Background The scarcity of human organs requires the transplant community to make difficult allocation decisions. This process begins at individual medical centers, where transplant teams decide which patients to place on the transplant waiting list. Each transplant center utilizes its own...

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Main Authors: Katherine L. Cahn-Fuller, Brendan Parent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
Subjects:
Organ transplantation
Psychiatric illness
Psychosocial evaluation
Transplant candidates
Transplant eligibility
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12910-017-0235-4

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