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Article: Medical examiners hindering donation in some areas, children particularly affected, study finds
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- November 30, 1994
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A significant number of transplant patients, particularly children, would receive organ and tissue transplants each year if U.S. medical examiners and coroners did not unnecessarily prevent the donation of organs, according to a new study.
Writing in the Nov. 23 - 30 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Teresa Shafer charged that as many as 2979 Americans may not have received an organ from 1990 to 1992 because of medical examiner denials.
Shafer, regional director of LifeGift Organ Donation Center in Ft. Worth, TX, was the lead author on the report compiled in her capacity AS chair of the Association of Organ Procurement ...