Article: Families overriding relatives' plans for organ donation.(Practice Trends)

ORLANDO -- Patient wishes for organ donation were overridden by family members in about 20% of cases, creating "missed opportunities" for organ procurement, according to research conducted at a level I trauma center in Charlotte, N.C.

Dr. A. Britton Christmas and colleagues at the EH. Sammy Ross Jr. Center at the Carolinas Medical Center reviewed 3 months of organ donation referrals at their center. They estimated that about 17 potential transplant recipients did not receive organs because a patient's previous donation intentions were overridden by family members.

The research was presented in a poster at the annual congress of the Society of Critical ...

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