Organ donationEthical Issues of Organ Transplantation in Chinese Community: Perspectives of Health Professionals, Legal Professionals, and Religious Experts in Taiwan and Mainland China
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Materials and Methods
An explorative qualitative research design was used. A purposive sample including TW's OTHP (including transplant surgeons, nurses, researchers, and social workers), LP, and RE and MC's HP (including surgeons and nurses) was obtained in this qualitative research. TW's subjects received face-to-face interviews, and MC's subjects received telephone interviews due to limited communication opportunities. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis.
Results
A total of 127 subjects participated in this project: 93.7% from TW (n = 119) and 6.3% from MC (n = 8). Seventy-two percent (n = 92) were HP, including 15.7% surgeons (n = 20: TW n = 14, MC n = 6), 37.0% registered nurses (n = 47: TW n = 45, MC n = 2), 7.9% OT coordinating nurses (OTCN; TW n = 10, MC n = 0), 3.9% OT researchers (TW n = 5, MC n = 0), and 7.9% social workers (TW n = 10, MC n = 0). Additionally, 19.7% were RE (TW n = 25, MC n = 0) and 7.9% were LP (TW n = 10, MC n = 0).
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Discussion
Since 2000, some of Taiwan's medical and nursing OT leaders have started to respond to Western society's call that OTHP pay too much attention to the donors' and recipients' biophysiological health issues and the tangible strategies of organ allocation.4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Thus, in-depth ethical dilemmas have not received adequate or systematic investigation; unfortunately, they are often the evidence of competing cultural value systems influencing different public groups' and donor's families'
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