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ReviewMedicine, health care, and philosophy2021

Nudging to donate organs: do what you like or like what we do?

Sergio Beraldo, Jurgis Karpus

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Review in Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sergio BeraldoDepartment of Economics and Statistics, University of Napoli, Naples, Italy.
Jurgis KarpusFaculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany. jurgis.karpus@lmu.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7408-9982

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An effective method to increase the number of potential cadaveric organ donors is to make people donors by default with the option to opt out. This non-coercive public policy tool to influence people's choices is often justified on the basis of the as-judged-by-themselves principle: people are nudged into choosing what they themselves truly want. We review three often hypothesized reasons for why defaults work and argue that the as-judged-by-themselves principle may hold only in two of these cases. We specify further conditions for when the principle can hold in these cases and show that whether those conditions are met is often unclear. We recommend ways to expand nationwide surveys to identify the actual reasons for why defaults work and discuss mandated choice policy as a viable solution to many arising conundrums.

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Tissue and Organ ProcurementHumansPublic PolicySurveys and QuestionnairesTissue DonorsAs judged by themselvesAutomatic enrolmentDefault rule nudgeMandated active choiceOrgan donation

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PMID33733389
PMCPMC8349348

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