Public Understandings of the Definition and Determination of Death: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Advances in medicine and technology that have made it possible to support, repair, or replace failing organs challenge commonly held notions of life and death. The objective of this review is to develop a comprehensive description of the current understandings of the public regarding the meaning/definition and determination of death.

Methods

This scoping review was conducted in compliance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist. Online databases were used to identify articles published from 2003 to 2021. Two reviewers (S.S. and K.Z.) screened the articles using predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, extracted data for specific content variables, and performed descriptive examination.

SUBMITTER: Zheng K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8989773 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature