ArticleJournal of medical ethics2020
Triage of critical care resources in COVID-19: a stronger role for justice.
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- Ethical considerations of artificial intelligence in emergency medicine for triage and resource allocation: a scoping review.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2025Article
- The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2025Review
- Scarce resources, public health and professional care: the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating bioethical conflicts - findings from global qualitative expert interviews.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Experiences of US Clinicians Contending With Health Care Resource Scarcity During the COVID-19 Pandemic, December 2020 to December 2021.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- The positive impact of COVID-19 on critical care: from unprecedented challenges to transformative changes, from the perspective of young intensivists.Annals of intensive care · 2023Review
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- Ethical Guidance for Hard Decisions: A Critical Review of Early International COVID-19 ICU Triage Guidelines.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2022Review
- Assessment of a Crisis Standards of Care Scoring System for Resource Prioritization and Estimated Excess Mortality by Race, Ethnicity, and Socially Vulnerable Area During a Regional Surge in COVID-19.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Functionality of Scarce Healthcare Resource Triage Teams During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Institutional Simulation Study.Critical care explorations · 2022Article
- Beyond Individual Triage: Regional Allocation of Life-Saving Resources such as Ventilators in Public Health Emergencies.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2021Article
- Ethics of ICU triage during COVID-19.British medical bulletin · 2021Review
- Operationalizing Ethical Guidance for Ventilator Allocation in Minnesota: Saving the Most Lives or Exacerbating Health Disparities?Critical care explorations · 2021Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic and Equal Access to Vaccines.Vaccines · 2021Article
- Approaches to critical care resource allocation and triage during the COVID-19 pandemic: an examination from a developing world perspective.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2021Article
- Biases in COVID-19 Medical Resource Dilemmas.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Some ethicists assert that there is a consensus that maximising medical outcomes takes precedence as a principle of resource allocation in emergency triage of absolutely scarce resources. But the nature of the current severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 pandemic and the history of debate about balancing equity and efficiency in resource allocation do not support this assertion. I distinguish a number of concerns with justice and balancing considerations that should play a role in critical care triage policy, focusing on discrimination and on fundamental egalitarian and social justice concerns.
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