Baseline Ethical Principles and a Framework for Evaluation of Policies: Recommendations From an International Consensus Forum

Dale Gardiner, MD, Andrew McGee, PhD, Christy Simpson, Ph, Curie Ahn, MD, PhD, Aviva Goldberg, MD, Austin Kinsella, Sanjay Nagral, MD‚ and Matthew J. Weiss, MD
April 28, 2023, NCBI

Background

To maintain public trust and integrity in organ and tissue donation and transplantation (OTDT), policymakers, governments, clinical leaders, and decision-makers must ensure that policies proposed to increase donation and transplant activity satisfy baseline ethical principles established by international agreement, declaration, and resolution. This article describes the output of the Baseline Ethical Domain group of an international forum designed to guide stakeholders in considering these aspects of their system.

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