Open accessResearch articleFirst published online 2020-7
RETRACTED: Routine parental request of organ donation in end-of-life care of children in the United Kingdom: Unresolved medical,legal,cultural and religious challenges
At the request of the Journal Editors the following article has been retracted.
Rady, M. Routine parental request of organ donation in end-of-life care of children in the United Kingdom: Unresolved medical, legal, cultural and religious challenges. Medico-Legal Journal 2019 (DOI: 10.1177/0025817219875307)
The Journal Editors have determined the research reported in a publication (Darlington et al. Parents’ experiences of requests for organ and tissue donation: the value of asking. Arch Dis Child 2019; 104: 837–843) discussed in the above paper was misunderstood and mischaracterised. As a result, this paper has been retracted from publication.
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