PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Annet Glas
TI  - Join the Lone Kidney Club: incentivising live organ donation
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2019-105999
DP  - 2021 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 618--622
VI  - 47
IP  - 9
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/47/9/618.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/47/9/618.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2021 Sep 01; 47
AB  - Given the dramatic shortage of transplantable organs, demand cannot be met by established and envisioned organ procurement policies targeting postmortem donation. Live organ donation (LOD) is a medically attractive option, and ethically permissible if informed consent is given and donor beneficence balances recipient non-maleficence. Only a few legal and regulatory frameworks incentivise LOD, with the key exception of Israel’s Organ Transplant Law, which has produced significant improvements in organ donation rates. Therefore, I propose an organ procurement system that incentivises LOD by allocating additional priority points to the living donor on any transplant waiting list. I outline benefits and challenges for potential recipients, donors and society at large, and suggest measures to ensure medical protection of marginalised patient groups.There are no data in this work.