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The most useful gift : altruism and the public policy of organ transplants / Jeffrey Prottas ; foreword by Richard C. Leone.
- Title
- The most useful gift : altruism and the public policy of organ transplants / Jeffrey Prottas ; foreword by Richard C. Leone.
- Author
- Prottas, Jeffrey, 1947-
- Publication
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1994], ©1994.
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- Description
- xxiii, 185 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- And are there organizational and policy solutions that could alleviate the continuing shortage of human organs?
- And finally, by examining the ethical issues that arise in the face of a limited organ supply, Prottas explores the numerous challenges policy makers and health care professionals must address and stresses the need for sound government policy and public funding to allay doctor and patient concerns about adequate treatment and equal access.
- By tracing the progress of the field from its beginning, Prottas shows how organ procurement organizations (OPOs) have improved the delivery and efficiency of transplantation to the point where the average OPO today is more effective at procuring organs than the top 10 percent were in 1982.
- Prottas explains which organizational innovations hold the best potential for increasing the supply of human organs. He shows how health care managers can increase the number of potential donors by making OPOs responsible for organ referrals, thereby avoiding the bottleneck effect that arises when doctors and nurses are chiefly responsible.
- The Most Useful Gift, written for health care managers and policy makers, is the first comprehensive guide to understanding the challenges human organ procurement professionals face. In it, Jeffrey Prottas explains the organizational, technological, and social dynamics that make organ transplantation possible, and he offers specific suggestions on how to improve organ procurement and deal with the natural shortage of available human organs.
- There are more than fifteen thousand human organ transplants performed annually in the United States, and each year demand increases, outstripping the medical industry's ability to supply organs. Faced with this relative scarcity, policy makers and health care professionals are forced to question the basic policies of organ procurement. For example, should organ procurement continue to rely on voluntary donations?
- Series Statement
- The Jossey-Bass health series
- Uniform Title
- Jossey-Bass health series.
- Subjects
- Altruism
- Organ Transplantation
- Donation of organs, tissues, etc > Social aspects > United States
- Donation of organs, tissues, etc > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
- Public Policy
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc > Social aspects > United States
- Tissue and Organ Procurement
- United States
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
- Donation of organs, tissues, etc > Government policy > United States
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc > Government policy > United States
- Note
- "A Twentieth Century Fund book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-178) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Richard C. Leone -- 1. Foundations of Transplantation -- 2. The Organ Procurement System -- 3. The Public and Organ Donation -- 4. Medical Professionals and Organ Procurement -- 5. The Ethics and Politics of Distribution -- 6. Transplantation and Public Policy.
- ISBN
- 1555426441 (recycled paper)
- LCCN
- 93038239
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries