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Preferred term

Tissue and Organ Procurement  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The administrative procedures involved with acquiring TISSUES or organs for TRANSPLANTATION through various programs, systems, or organizations. These procedures include obtaining consent from TISSUE DONORS and arranging for transportation of donated tissues and organs, after TISSUE HARVESTING, to HOSPITALS for processing and transplantation. An organ procurement policy based on the requirement that health personnel routinely make inquiry of family members about the possibility of removing organs from a patient who has been declared legally dead.

Broader concept

In other languages

  • French

  • Acquisition de tissus et d'organes
  • Approvisionnement en organes et tissus
  • Approvisionnement en tissus et organes
  • Collecte d'organes et de tissus
  • Procédures d'obtention d'organes

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-SXZ0913Q-T

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