Addressing organ shortage: An automatic organ procurement model as a proposal Morla González, Marina Moya Guillem, Clara Rodríguez Arias Vailhen, David de Miguel Beriain, Íñigo Molina Pérez, Alberto Ortega-Deballon, Iván Organ donation Consent Ethics Organ conscription Donación de órganos, tejidos, etc. Consentimiento informado (Derecho médico) Ética médica Conscripción de órganos Organ shortage constitutes an unsolved problem for every country that offers transplantation as a therapeutic option. Besides the largely implemented donation model and the eventually implemented market model, a theorized automatic organ procurement model has raised a rich debate in the legal, medical and bioethical community, since it could show a higher potential to solve organ shortage. In this paper, we study the main arguments for and against this model. We show how, in the light of empirical data extracted from countries with a universal health care system, its implementation could lead to a positive impact on organ procurement rates. Three factors are envisioned as fundamental in the comprehension and a possible regulation of the automatic organ procurement model: the lack of recognition of the conscientious objection, the preservation of the right to choose end of life conditions, and the need to avoid incentives for families or healthcare professionals. 2024-06-25T06:05:04Z 2024-06-25T06:05:04Z 2021 journal article Morla-González M, Moya-Guillem C, Rodríguez-Arias D, de Miguel Beriain Í, Molina-Pérez A, Ortega-Deballon I. Addressing organ shortage: An automatic organ procurement model as a proposal. Clinical Ethics. 2021;16(4):278-290. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/92800 10.1177/14777509211011429 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Clinical Ethics