Moving towards implementation of a clinical ethics consultation program in Egyptian liver transplant clinics

Moving towards implementation of a clinical ethics consultation program in Egyptian liver transplant clinics

El-Elemi, A.H.
El-Gazzaz, G.H.

2010/00/00

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The high prevalence of chronic liver disease in Egypt has led to increasing numbers of patients with end-stage liver disease in need of liver transplantation. To date, cadaveric liver transplantation is not legal in Egypt. However, introducing living-donor liver transplantation seems appropriate for patients who need transplantation. There are no clinical bioethicists in the Egyptian healthcare system. The idea of implementing an ethics consultation program has evolved as a response to complicated legal, ethical, and social dilemmas that accompany the transplantation process, especially in Egypt where organs are obtained by advertising without consideration of an acceptable level of risk to donors or recipients. Recommendations need to be made to start to implement peoples who do bioethics consultation in liver transplantation units. To achieve this goal there is a need to develop training standards, credentials, and certification before embarking on clinical consultation to ensure good ethics practice in Egypt.

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bioethics--[pri];ethics consultation--[pri];livers--[pri];living donors--[pri];organ transplantation--[pri]

bioethical issues;clinical ethics;directed donation;education;ethicist's role;ethics;guidelines;health care delivery;hepatitis;organ donation;organ donors;quality of health care;standards

Egypt--[pri]

Transplant Research and Risk Management2010; 2:23-27

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