ArticleThe American journal of bioethics : AJOB2020
Flattening the Rationing Curve: The Need for Explicit Guidelines for Implicit Rationing during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Article in The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- "They Are Not Going to Be Happy": An Ethnographic Study of the Prioritization of Patients Awaiting Elective Surgery in an Academic Hospital in the Netherlands.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2026Article
- Lower Mortality Associated With Preemptive Health System Resource Reallocation During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study in 85 Countries.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2026Article
- Association between critical care occupancy and code status decisions during resource scarcity: a retrospective cohort study.BMC medical ethics · 2025Article
- Inter-hospital Transfer Decision-making During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Qualitative Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Rationing in healthcare-a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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