title: The untimely death of the UK Donation Ethics Committee.
abstract: This brief report describes the contribution of the UK Donation Ethics Committee to organ donation and transplantation in the UK, and explains why the committee has met an early demise.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.|Department of Health, Ethics and Society, CAPHRI Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shaw
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D017041:Ethics Committees / Q000191:economics; D005380:Financing, Government; D006801:Humans; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000941:ethics*; D014019:Tissue Donors; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics*; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Donation/Procurement of Organs/Tissues; Ethics Committees/Consultation; Vital organ donation