Miscommunicating NOTA Can Be Costly to Living Donors

M Mittelman; C Thiessen; W J Chon; K Clayville; D C Cronin; J S Fisher; S Fry-Revere; J A Gross; J Hanneman; M L Henderson; K Ladin; H Mysel; L A Sherman; L Willock; E J Gordon

doi:10.1111/ajt.14036

Miscommunicating NOTA Can Be Costly to Living Donors

Am J Transplant. 2017 Feb;17(2):578-580. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14036. Epub 2016 Oct 3.

Authors

M Mittelman¹, C Thiessen², W J Chon³, K Clayville⁴, D C Cronin⁵, J S Fisher⁶, S Fry-Revere⁷, J A Gross⁸, J Hanneman⁴, M L Henderson⁹, K Ladin¹⁰, H Mysel¹¹, L A Sherman⁴, L Willock¹², E J Gordon⁴

Affiliations

¹ American Living Organ Donor Network, Philadelphia, PA.
² Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
³ University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR.
⁴ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
⁵ Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
⁶ Scripps Clinic/Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA.
⁷ American Living Organ Donor Network, Center for Ethical Solutions, Washington, DC.
⁸ Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
⁹ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
¹⁰ Tufts University, Boston, MA.
¹¹ Living Kidney Donor Network, Winnetka, IL.
¹² Biomedical Institutional Review Board, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.

PMID: 27599256
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14036

No abstract available

Keywords: donors and donation: living; editorial/personal viewpoint; education; ethics; ethics and public policy; income; organ transplantation in general; patient education.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Communication*
Humans
Informed Consent
Living Donors*
Motivation*
Organ Transplantation / legislation & jurisprudence*