PMID: 8944734Nov 25, 1996Paper

Organ donors and nondonors. An American dilemma

Archives of Internal Medicine
T G PetersE W Nelson

Abstract

The principal motive for organ donation in the United States remains altruism. Surveys suggest that if the life-threatening and critical shortage of cadaveric donor organs were appropriately understood by the public, an altruistic response would lead to increased donation. However, despite intense educational efforts appealing to altruism, cadaveric organ donation has not increased substantially while the number of patients in need of a life-saving organ has grown markedly. To understand why organ donation has not increased, a telephone survey and focus group sessions of volunteers who were either for or against donation (donors and nondonors, respectively) were reviewed. The focus group nondonors demonstrated a remarkable lack of trust in the fairness of organ allocation and in the success of transplantation; indeed, this mistrust extended to the entire medical profession. The donors in the focus groups, on the other hand, believed that the system worked equitably, although their knowledge about organ donation and transplantation was equivalent to that of nondonors. For organ donation to increase, efforts must be directed toward those who are not convinced that donation is for the common welfare. One way to increase organ dona...Continue Reading

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