Resources & documents
Death investigation and organ & tissue donation resources
Helpful resources for recovery organizations, medical examiners and coroners.
- Death Investigation and Organ & Tissue Donation (PDF)
- Deaths Under Investigation: Preserving evidence & opportunity for donation (PDF)
- Shared Protocol for Organ Recovery in Deaths Under Investigation (PDF)
- Organ & Tissue Donation – Death Investigation Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network (PDF)
- Activation of Medical Examiner/Coroner Authority to Make Anatomical Gift (PDF)
- American Association of Tissue Banks: Guide to Medical Examiner & Coroner Cases (PDF)
- National Association of Medical Examiners Position Paper: Medical Examiner Release of Organs and Tissues for Transplantation (PDF)
- Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (PDF)
- Impact of Medical Examiner/Coroner Practices on Organ Recovery in the United States (PDF)
- Illinois Coroners & Medical Examiners Association (ICMEA)
- National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME)
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