[Organ Donation Act: against an objection system].
The Organ Donation Act (1998) has not resulted in an increase in donated organs. However, it should not be changed from a system registering consent to post-mortem donation to one in which objection is registered. The consent system is more suitable to ensuring the freedom to donate or not, and a system registering objection may not increase the number of donated organs. More serious implementation of the current system could however achieve this.
Gevers
J K M
JK
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Instituut Sociale Geneeskunde, Meiberg-dreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam. j.k.gevers@amc.uva.nl
D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D019724:Presumed Consent; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data