The novel COVID-19 pandemic has placed medical triage decision-making in the spotlight.
As life-saving ventilators become scarce, clinicians are being forced to allocate scarce …

Killing someone directly is never morally right, but sometimes, choosing someone to save
and leaving another to die is. The moral philosophy, law, and medical ethics have all …

A public health emergency, as the COVID-19 pandemic, may lead to shortages of potentially
life-saving treatments. In this situation, it is necessary, justifiable and proportionate to have …

In the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers in some countries were
forced to make distressing triaging decisions about which individual patients should receive …

The ever-debated question of triage and allocating the life-saving ventilator during the
COVID-19 pandemic has been repeatedly raised and challenged within the ethical …

Abstract The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was previously unknown, and we are learning
about it day by day, but pandemic-associated ethical dilemmas have been studied and …

This article provides a critical comparative analysis of the substantive and procedural values
and ethical concepts articulated in guidelines for allocating scarce resources in the COVID …

Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has placed intensive care units (ICU)
triage at the center of bioethical discussions. National and international triage guidelines …

We report here an emerging dispute in Italy concerning triage criteria for critically ill covid-19
patients, and how best to support doctors having to make difficult decisions in a context of …

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 …