Background To reduce the arbitrariness in the allocation of rare resources in intensive care
units (ICU) in the context of the pandemic, tiebreakers were considered in some COVID-19 …

The purpose of this paper is to identify a kind of discrimination that has hitherto gone
unrecognised.'Terminalism'is discrimination against the dying, or treating the terminally ill …

OBJECTIVES: Prior research has hypothesized the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment
(SOFA) score to be a poor predictor of mortality in mechanically ventilated patients with …

Principles for priority setting in health care are typically forged by experts influenced by the
normative literature on priority setting. Meanwhile, their implementation is subject to …

Background Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) overwhelmed health systems globally
forcing doctors to make difficult triage decisions where healthcare resources became limited …

Background The prioritization protocols for accessing adult critical care in the extreme
pandemic context contain tiebreaker criteria to facilitate decision-making in the allocation of …

Revista de Bioética y Derecho Perspectivas Bioéticas Page 1 La controversia bioética
sobre el triaje durante la pandemia de la COVID-19 – Jorge E. Linares Salgado Rev Bio y …

Unsere Gesellschaft altert unaufhaltsam. Diese Entwicklung birgt Sprengstoff, nicht nur für
unsere Versorgungssysteme, sondern für den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt insgesamt …

During the coronavirus pandemic, communities have faced shortages of important
healthcare resources such as COVID-19 vaccines, medical staff, ICU beds and ventilators …

Dans le contexte extrême d'une pandémie, lorsque les besoins en ressources de soins
intensifs dépassent l'offre, les travailleurs de la santé sont contraints de faire des choix …