Finding Organ Donors by Anne Negro

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Finding Organ Donorsby Anne Negro

• http//www.abcnews.go.com/sections/Living/US/organ
  _donation_031124-1.html

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Organ Donors in America

• Donors volunteer BEFORE they die to donate
  themselves to others

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Organ Donors Around the World

• In Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Poland,
  Portugal and Sweden, authorities assume everyone
  is willing to be a donor
• unless the family says otherwise in written form

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Other Donors Around the World

• In Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and the
  United Kingdom its like the U.S.
• it is assumed people are not willing donors
  unless they sign up to be

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In the U.S.

• 83 percent of Americans understand the benefits
  of organ donation and approve of the practice
• only 28 percent have granted written consent to
  release their organs if they die
• Since 1995, more than 45,000 people have died
  waiting for an organ donor

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In Other Countries

• 85 - 99 of people are on paper as willing
  donors
• actual donations are higher by about 56 percent
  in countries like Austria
• Donor rates range from just over 4 in Denmark to
  27 in the Netherlands.

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The Question

• Should the U.S. change our way of getting organ
  donors?

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A Study Was Done

• Group 1 was told it would be assumed they would
  be an organ donor
• Group 2 was told it would be assumed they were
  not donors unless they specified they wanted to
  be.
• Group 3 was told they got choose either way

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The Study Showed

• those who had to opt out from being a donor, 82
  volunteered to be donors
• those who had to change their default to opt in
  and become a donor, only 42 signed up
• 79 of those who had the choice said they would
  be donors

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What Will You Do?