National Organ Transplant Act
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Title
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National Organ Transplant Act
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Date
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1984
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Description
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Congress enacted the National Organ Transplant Act in 1984. The law established the framework for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a national registry and matching system, and prohibited the transfer of human organs for valuable consideration.
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ABP identifier
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ABP-E-0013
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Historical significance
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Moved questions of organ scarcity and allocation from local clinical dilemmas toward a national institutional and regulatory framework.
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Intellectual stream
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Law & public policy
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Clinical ethics & professionalism
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Verification status
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Verified
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Evidence confidence
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High
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Historical role
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Nationalized key elements of organ procurement, matching, and transplantation governance.
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Open question
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How should later changes in national allocation policy be linked to this foundational statutory record?