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Organ Donation Awareness Week 18th – 24th September 2023

 Organ Donation Awareness Week is a campaign run by NHS Blood and Transplant, which takes place every year with the aim of highlighting the importance of organ donation.  The aim is to encourage more people to register as organ donors so more lives can be saved.

 RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to the issue of organ donation, whether it be the practical surgical side or the ethical considerations. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.  

 

BOOKS   

  • Transplantation; Forsythe, John L. R; 2014, 5th edition (Saunders Elsevier)

 *N.B. NHS staff who are members of the Health Library can request a temporary Keele username which allows access to Keele e-resources from the Keele IT Suite in the Health Library within the CEC at Royal Stoke.

 

JOURNALS   

  • Transplant international (Online), European Society for Organ Transplantation, European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association. [Available as an open access e-journal from 1988 onwards]
  • Liver transplantation (Online), American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, issuing body.; International Liver Transplantation Society. [Available as an open access e-journal from 1995-1999; thereafter, only available as a Keele e-journal]*
  • Transplantation direct, Transplantation Society, Wolters Kluwer. [Available as an open-access e-journal from 2015 onwards]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/ 

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

  • A systematic review comparing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant to gene therapy in sickle cell disease”; Rotin, Lianne E; Viswabandya, Auro; et al; Hematology (Luxembourg), 2023, Vol.28 (1), p.2163357-2163357; DOI: 10.1080/16078454.2022.2163357. [Available via open access e-journal]
  • Efficacy of pre-emptive kidney transplantation for adults with end-stage kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis”; Azegami, Tatsuhiko; Kounoue, Noriyuki; et al; Renal failure, 2023, Vol.45 (1), p.2169618-2169618; DOI: 10.1080/0886022X.2023.2169618. [Available via an open access e-journal]
  • The British Transplantation Society guidelines on cardiothoracic organ transplantation from deceased donors after circulatory death”; Pai, Vasudev; Asgari, Ellie; et al; Transplantation reviews (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2023, Vol.37 (4), p.100794-100794; DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2023.100794. [Available via an open access e-journal]
  • “Changing to an Opt Out System for Organ Donation-Reflections From England and Netherlands.”, N. E. Jansen; C. Williment; B. J. J. M. Haase-Kromwijk; D. Gardiner; Transplant International, 2022, 4 July, Vol. 35 (10466). DOI: 10.3389/ti.2022.10466. [Available online as open access]
  • “Current status of organ donation after brain death in the UK.”; Manara, A. R.; Thomas, I.. Anaesthesia ; 2020, Vol. 75 (9), pp.1205-1214. DOI: 10.1111/anae.15038 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]
  • “Remapping the organ donation ethical climate: a care ethics consideration”, Hui Yun Chan; Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy; 2020; Vol. 23 (2), pp.295–308. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-019-09934-2 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]
  • “Informing the UK Muslim Community on Organ Donation: Evaluating the Effect of a National Public Health Programme by Health Professionals and Faith Leaders.”; Ali, Omar M. E.; Gkekas, Eleftherios; Ali, Ahmad M. S.; et al.; Journal of Religion & Health; 2023; Vol. 62 (3), 1716-1730. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-022-01680-9 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]

 PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

 KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians.For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/

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