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Showing 1 to 20 of 289 for “"donation"”.
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Donation: The family's perspective
… experience of families who had participated in donation. The research question is: Why do families participate in organ or tissue donation?;This is a descriptive qualitative study utilizing techniques of phenomenology for purposes of identifying areas of significance and importance to informants …
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Depictions of Donation: A Thematic Analysis of Organ Donation Storylines in Television Medical Dramas
… to portray storylines related to organ donation. The analyzed shows included in this study were: Grey's Anatomy, The Good Doctor, New Amsterdam, Chicago Med, and The Resident. From the analysis, six major themes emerged: Urgency of Transplant, Ethical Decision-Making, Emotional Impacts …
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Revamping the United States Organ Donation System: An Ethical Justification for Compensated Live Organ Donation
… been discussed with the aim of increasing organ donation rates and the raw number of organs available for transplant, including changing our default consent status for cadaveric organ donation and the option of incentivizing organ donation by compensating live donors with financial incentives. …
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Three essays on special donation types
… has explored factors associated with special donation types such as 1) bequests, 2) lifetime donations to specific cause types, or 3) the intersection of bequests and lifetime donations to specific cause types. This dissertation provides new information addressing all three of these areas. …
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Organ Donation in the United States
… of focused interventions to improve organ donation participation rates and diminish inequities. Methods: We analyzed data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) for the years Jan 1, 1988 – Aug 15, 2012. We describe characteristics of organ donors, transplant …
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Redesign the blood donation service model - what should the blood donation service be like in the digital age?
… the U.S. needs blood, and more than 41,000 blood donations are needed every day. However, although 38% of the U.S. population is eligible to donate, less than 10% do. There are many factors that lead directly to the increase of blood demand, such as the aging population, traffic accidents, and …
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Egg Donation in Germany, A Sociological Study
Abstract Egg donation is a fertility treatment developed in the 1980s to help a woman conceive and have a child with eggs provided by another woman. Germany is one of the few European countries that bans egg donation (German Embryo Protection Act 1991). The thesis provides an in-depth account of …
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Robust Post-donation Blood Screening under Limited Information
… (FDA) in the United States requires all blood donations to be tested for a set of infections, it does not dictate which particular tests should be used by blood collection centers. Multiple FDA-licensed blood screening tests are available for each infection, but all screening tests are …
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The Complexity of Organ Donation: A Review of the Literature
… and trust in the systems responsible for organ donation and transplantation. The thesis also considers the different perspectives offered on these topics by the quantitative and qualitative literatures on these subjects. While increasing education of organ donation and transplantation a primary …
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Organ Donation and Transplantation: Considering International Policy Options for Canada
Organ donation is the most cost-effective, if not the only, option for the treatment for end-stage organ failure. End-stage organ failure is an epidemic, costing the Canadian healthcare system over $35 billion dollars per year. As organ donation and transplantation (ODT) is the most cost-effective …
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Conception by egg donation: perceptions, maternal bonding and health practices
… of the key features of ART is conception by egg donation in which the child has no genetic link with the mother. The aim of the present thesis is to examine how the Iranian (Eastern) and British (Western) public, as well as mothers (both Iranian and British) who have conceived a child by egg …
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Ensemble machine learning to predict family consent for organ donation
… for transplantation and numbers available for donation to save lives. As a result, thousands of people die every year waiting for organs. Therefore, it is now more important than ever before to take serious actions to decrease this disparity. One way to bridge gap between organ demand and …
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Parties to gamete donation: from bounded selves to relational persons.
… between Australian parties to gamete donation. In particular, I argue that the relationships may have been well described by a liberal model of rights in the past, but that the liberal model is no longer adequate to characterise the developing interpersonal relationships between the …
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Qualitative evaluation of a food pantry fresh produce donation program
The student, Starr'Retiece Gibson, accepted the attached license on 2020-12-08 at 19:28.
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Influencers of surplus food donation at institutions of higher education
… examine the factors that influence surplus food donation at institutions of higher education (IHE). IHE hold an interesting position in the economy, as they receive both direct and indirect benefits from public services or “doing good”. Like any food service provider (e.g. a restaurant), donating …
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