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ArticleClinical ethics2023

Refusal of transplant organs for non-medical reasons including COVID-19 status.

Sai Kaushik Yeturu, Susan M Lerner, Jacob M Appel

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Article in Clinical ethics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sai Kaushik YeturuDepartment of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7567-2835
Susan M LernerRecanati Miller Transplantation Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
Jacob M AppelDepartment of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transplant centers and physicians in the United States have limited guidance on the information which they can and cannot provide to transplant candidates regarding donors of potential organs. Patients may refuse organs for a variety of reasons ranging from pernicious requests including racism to misinformation about emerging medicine as with the COVID-19 vaccine and infection. Patient autonomy, organ stewardship, and equity are often at odds in these cases, but precedent indeed exists to help address these challenges. This work uses such cases to highlight the urgent need for uniform, national policy prohibiting informational requests unrelated to well-established risks.

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COVIDorganrefusalTransplantvaccination

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PMID38603250
PMCPMC9720467

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