Travel for transplantation and transplant commercialism in Argentina: a 4‐decade experience from a University Hospital

Rodriguez-Reimundes, E.; Soler-Pujol, Gervasio; Díaz, Carlos; Dávalos‐Michel, Mario; Jost, Luis J.; Laham, Gustavo; Vilches, Antonio

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“…6 The Internet was the primary source tourists use to initially learn a potential destination country followed by word-ofmouth and peer-support networks. 6,8,9,15,16,18,19,34,35 Many factors drove the decision making about the destination. Drinkert and Singh 6 reported that 30.8% of medical tourists adopted physician's advice followed by word-ofmouth (26.2%) and the Internet (13.5%) to decide on the destination hospital.…”

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An Integrative Review of Patients’ Experience in the Medical Tourism

Wang

2020

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Medical tourism has emerged as an industry due to the constantly improved information technology and decreasing cost for transportation. Evidence on how medical tourists develop their medical travel and their experience keeps growing. This article aims to provide an integrative review to understand medical tourism from the patients’ perspective. PRISMA procedures were followed. All the literature was published from January 1, 2009, to May 4, 2019, in peer-reviewed journals in CINAHL and MEDLINE/PubMed. Johns Hopkins Nursing evidence level and quality guide were used to evaluate evidence level. Twenty-one studies including 8 quantitative, 10 qualitative, and 3 mix-method studies were reviewed. Low cost, short waiting list, quality, and procedures available were the motivators to treatment abroad. The Internet, former tourists’ testimonial, and physician and facilitators’ advice were the predominant resources consulted. Perceived value of medical quality directly affected patients’ overall satisfaction. Our integrative review has led to the identification of many factors related to medical tourist’s experience. We suggest further empirical researches on (1) the patients’ decision-making process of motivators and barriers, (2) the factors related to patients’ experience on the health care quality, and (3) the strategies to ensure the continuity of care.

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An Integrative Review of Patients’ Experience in the Medical Tourism

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2020

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“…Most patients traveled for kidney transplants, the majority of which were living unrelated . Patients also traveled for liver transplants .…”

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On Patients Who Purchase Organ Transplants Abroad

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Bramer

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American Journal of Transplantation

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The international transplant community portrays organ trade as a growing and serious crime involving large numbers of traveling patients who purchase organs. We present a systematic review about the published number of patients who purchased organs. With this information, we discuss whether the scientific literature reflects a substantial practice of organ purchase. Between 2000 and 2015, 86 studies were published. Seventy-six of these presented patients who traveled and 42 stated that the transplants were commercial. Only 11 studies reported that patients paid, and eight described to what or whom patients paid. In total, during a period of 42 years, 6002 patients have been reported to travel for transplantation. Of these, only 1238 were reported to have paid for their transplants. An additional unknown number of patients paid for their transplants in their native countries. We conclude that the scientific literature does not reflect a large number of patients buying organs. Organ purchases were more often assumed than determined. A reporting code for transplant professionals to report organ trafficking networks is a potential strategy to collect and quantify cases.

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Stimulating and Enhancing Partnerships Between Transplant Professionals and Law Enforcement

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Transplantation Direct

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To help combat trafficking in human beings for organ removal (THBOR), transplant professionals need to do more than carry out careful, multidisciplinary screening of potential living donors; they also need to communicate and collaborate with law enforcement professionals. This will involve transplant professionals educating investigators and prosecutors about transplant practices and in turn learning about THBOR and how it is prosecuted. Cases of illegal organ transplantation need to be detected at different levels. First, the victims of the crime itself need to be identified, especially when they present themselves for screening. Physicians have a collective responsibility to prevent exploitation of people, including THBOR victims. The second level involves the more difficult matter of making reports that involve transplant tourists who have returned home after receipt of an organ and need follow-up care. Besides counseling patients prospectively about the legal as well as medical risks in receiving a vended organ in a foreign transplant center, physicians treating such patients could have an obligation to report what has happened, if the government has established a mechanism that either allows reporting THBOR that does not include the identity of the patient or that treats patients as victims provided they cooperate in investigation and prosecution of the persons responsible for obtaining or implanting the organs. The third level of cooperation involves transplant professionals who participate in THBOR. Professional societies need to undertake programs to make physicians and nurses aware that their responsibility to protect their professions' reputation includes identifying members of their professions who depart from professional ethics. Doing so allows the local professional societies and state boards to discipline such violators. All 3 of these functions would be facilitated by the creation by an international body such as World Health Organization of a registry of patients who travel internationally to receive a legitimate organ transplant.

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Travel for transplantation and transplant commercialism in Argentina: a 4‐decade experience from a University Hospital

Cited by 3 publications

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An Integrative Review of Patients’ Experience in the Medical Tourism

An Integrative Review of Patients’ Experience in the Medical Tourism

On Patients Who Purchase Organ Transplants Abroad

Stimulating and Enhancing Partnerships Between Transplant Professionals and Law Enforcement

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