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ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2020

An ethical algorithm for rationing life-sustaining treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Julian Savulescu, Marco Vergano, Lucia Craxì, Dominic Wilkinson

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Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Collective Reflective Equilibrium, Algorithmic Bioethics and Complex Ethics.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2025
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  5. Ethics of artificial intelligence in medicine.Singapore medical journal · 2024
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  19. Medicine and humanism in the time of COVID-19. Ethical choices.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Julian SavulescuWellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: julian.savulescu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
Marco VerganoItalian Society of Anesthesia Analgesia Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI), Italy; Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Giovanni Bosco Hospital, Turin, Italy.
Lucia CraxìDepartment of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Dominic WilkinsonWellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 104848Wellcome Trust 104848/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

AlgorithmsBetacoronavirusResource AllocationCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Decision MakingHumansPandemicsPersonal AutonomyPneumonia, ViralQuality of LifeSARS-CoV-2TriageCOVID-19decision-makingethicsprognosisresource allocationtriageutilitarianism

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PMID32560912
PMCPMC7264035

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