Incentives for living kidney donation: what does the public think?
This mini-review describes a number of recent surveys that have been performed to study public opinion on the idea of introducing incentives for living kidney donation. The results of these surveys are comparable: about a quarter of the population is in favor of this idea, whereas the majority is opposed or undecided.
Kranenburg
Leonieke
L
Department of Medical Psychology & Psychotherapy, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. l.kranenburg@erasmusmc.nl
Weimar
Willem
W
D001294:Attitude to Health; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D009042:Motivation; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000523:psychology*; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000523:psychology*