Ensuring the safety of living kidney donors and recipients in China through ethics committee oversight: an early experience.
In 2007, the Regulation on Human Organ Transplantation was enacted in China requiring the establishment of ethics committees to oversee living donor organ transplantation and establishing specific requirements that must be met. We established an Ethics Committee on Organ Transplantation at Peking University Third Hospital, and described its composition, its methods and operating procedures in the examination and approval of living-related donor kidney transplantation (LRDKT) and our initial experience. All 60 proposed cases of LRDKT were presented to the Ethics Committee for discussion, among which 53 cases were approved and seven cases were disapproved due to a variety of reasons that are discussed. The Ethics Committee on Organ Transplantation plays an important role in the ethical oversight of living-related donor organ transplantation in order to ensure to the greatest extent possible the safety, rights and interests of donors and recipients.
Lei
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Department of Urology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China. zhaogreat@263.net
Lulin
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Guoliang
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Xiaofei
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D002681:China; D026724:Ethical Review; D017041:Ethics Committees / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000941:ethics*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000941:ethics*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics*