The Impact of Presumed Consent Legislation on Cadaveric Organ Donation: A Cross Country Study
@article{Abadie2006TheIO, title={The Impact of Presumed Consent Legislation on Cadaveric Organ Donation: A Cross Country Study}, author={Alberto Abadie and S. Gay}, journal={Health Care Law & Policy}, year={2006} }
In the U.S., Great Britain and in many other countries, the gap between the demand and the supply of human organs for transplantation is on the rise, despite the efforts of governments and health agencies to promote donor registration. [...] Key Method For this purpose, we construct a dataset on organ donation rates and potential factors affecting organ donation for 22 countries over a 10-year period. We find that while differences in other determinants of organ donation explain much of the variation in…Expand
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