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IOM Report Rejects Incentives for Organ Donation

A new report by the Institute of Medicine, Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action, explores new ways of improving the organ donation system and recommends against offering incentives to boost the rates of organ donations. Instead, it recommends efforts to move toward a society in which people see organ donation as a social responsibility.

Mary Ann Baily, associate for ethics and health policy at The Hastings Center, was a member of the IOM committee that wrote the report. James Childress, chair of the committee, is a Fellow of the Center. Nancy Dubler, liaison to the committee from the IOM's Board on Health Science Policy, is also a Fellow.