Background People with neurodegenerative disease and mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
may have an elevated risk of acquiring severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

Importance The spring 2020 surge of COVID-19 unprecedentedly strained ventilator supply
in New York City, with many hospitals nearly exhausting available ventilators and …

Background Clinical utility of routinely measured serial biomarkers in predicting escalation
of inpatient care intensity and mortality among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 remains …

Computer-based algorithms have the potential to encode and exacerbate ableism and may
contribute to disparate outcomes for disabled people. The threat of algorithmic bias to …

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic prompted planning for clinical surges and associated
resource shortages, particularly of equipment such as ventilators. We sought to examine the …

10.1. 1 Problems e dening feature of a pandemic is its scale. An infectious disease that
acutely spreads affecting a large number of individuals in multiple different countries across …

The concept of triage originated on battlefields. War metaphors were often used in early
2020 (Chapman and Miller DeMond 2020; Sabuced et al. 2020) as policy-makers and …

Objectives: To evaluate how key aspects of New York State Ventilator Allocation Guidelines
(NYSVAG)—Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score criteria and ventilator time trials …

Since physicians began to formally professionalize in the 19th century, we have sought to
set ourselves apart from other occupations through the adoption (and variable enforcement) …

In 2020, with the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic, academics and scientists began to
question the triage criteria for allocating insufficient healthcare resources, trying to ethically …