Financial incentives to increase Canadian organ donation: quick fix or fallacy?

@article{Gill2014FinancialIT,
  title={Financial incentives to increase Canadian organ donation: quick fix or fallacy?},
  author={John S. Gill and Scott W. Klarenbach and Lianne Barnieh and Timothy Caulfield and Gregory A. Knoll and Adeera Levin and Edward Cole},
  journal={American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation},
  year={2014},
  volume={63 1},
  pages={
          133-40
        }
}
  • J. Gill, S. Klarenbach, +4 authors E. Cole
  • Published 2014
  • Medicine, Political Science
  • American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation
Unlike the United States, the potential to increase organ donation in Canada may be sufficient to meet the need for transplantation. However, there has been no national coordinated effort to increase organ donation. Strategies that do not involve payment for organs, such as investment in health care resources to support deceased donor organ donation and introduction of a remuneration framework for the work of deceased organ donation, should be prioritized for implementation. Financial… 
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