Putting ethics and clinical decision making before politics: requiring COVID-19 immunization for Solid Organ Transplantation (SOT) Candidates and their Support Team.

Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9102703 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1557-3117 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10532498 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Heart Lung Transplant Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 1999- : New York, NY : Elsevier
Original Publication: St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby-Year Book, Inc., c1991-

Bioethical Issues* ; COVID-19 Vaccines* ; Organ Transplantation* ; Politics*; COVID-19/*prevention & control ; Clinical Decision-Making/*ethics; Guidelines as Topic ; Humans

We recommend that vaccination for COVID-19 should be a requirement for waitlist activation for solid organ transplant (SOT). We also recommend that such vaccination be required of the primary member of the in-home support team. We argue that these requirements are consistent with current standard practices that draw on a well-established ethical framework. As a result, these recommendations should be easily received and are only controversial owing to the inflamed and politicized state of public discourse.
(Copyright © 2021 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Keywords: COVID-19; mandatory vaccination; medical ethics; solid organ transplant; vaccination

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Date Created: 20211120 Date Completed: 20220120 Latest Revision: 20220120

20240628

PMC8530775

10.1016/j.healun.2021.10.001

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