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Published on: July 19, 2021
Solicited kidney donors: Are they coerced?
David Serur1, Gretchen Bretzlaff2, Paul Christos3
1Division of Nephrology and the Rogosin Institute, New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract:
Most non-directed donors (NDDs) decide to donate on their own and contact the transplant centre directly. Some NDDs decide to donate in response to community solicitation such as newspaper ads or donor drives. We wished to explore whether subtle coercion might be occurring in such NDDs who are part of a larger community. One successful organization in a community in Brooklyn, NY, provides about 50 NDDs per year for recipients within that community. The donors answer ads in local papers and attend donor drives. Herein, we evaluated the physical and emotional outcomes of community-solicited NDDs in comparison to traditional NDDs who come from varied communities and are not responding to a specific call for donation. An assessment of coercion was used as well.
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