Too many patients… a framework to guide statewide allocation of scarce mechanical ventilation during disasters

ELD Biddison, R Faden, HS Gwon, DP Mareiniss… - Chest, 2019 - Elsevier
The threat of a catastrophic public health emergency causing life-threatening illness or injury
on a massive scale has prompted extensive federal, state, and local preparedness efforts …

Ethical challenges arising in the COVID-19 pandemic: an overview from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) task force

AL McGuire, MP Aulisio, FD Davis, C Erwin… - The American Journal …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a host of ethical challenges, but key among these has
been the possibility that health care systems might need to ration scarce critical care …

A framework for rationing ventilators and critical care beds during the COVID-19 pandemic

DB White, B Lo - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic intensifies, shortages of ventilators
have occurred in Italy and are likely imminent in parts of the US. In ordinary clinical …

Persons with disabilities as an unrecognized health disparity population

GL Krahn, DK Walker… - American journal of …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Disability is an emerging field within public health; people with significant disabilities
account for more than 12% of the US population. Disparity status for this group would allow …

Priority-setting dilemmas, moral distress and support experienced by nurses and physicians in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway

I Miljeteig, I Forthun, KO Hufthammer… - Nursing …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The global COVID-19 pandemic has imposed challenges on healthcare
systems and professionals worldwide and introduced a´ maelstrom´ of ethical dilemmas …

Rationing limited healthcare resources in the COVID‐19 era and beyond: ethical considerations regarding older adults

TW Farrell, L Francis, T Brown… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) continues to impact older adults disproportionately
with respect to serious consequences ranging from severe illness and hospitalization to …

Exposure detection applications acceptance: The case of COVID-19

A Alsyouf, A Lutfi, M Al-Bsheish, M Jarrar… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The pandemic's context is rife with numerous dangerous threats and high fear levels,
influencing human decision-making. Such characteristics are identified by investigating the …

US clinicians' experiences and perspectives on resource limitation and patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic

CR Butler, SPY Wong, AG Wightman… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Little is known about how US clinicians have responded to resource limitation
during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Objective To describe the …

Maximizing the calm before the storm: tiered surgical response plan for novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

SW Ross, CW Lauer, WS Miles, JM Green… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was first diagnosed in Wuhan, China in December 2019
and has now spread throughout the world, being verified by the World Health Organization …

Fair allocation of vaccines, ventilators and antiviral treatments: leaving no ethical value behind in health care rationing

PA Pathak, T Sönmez, MU Ünver… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
COVID-19 has revealed limitations of existing mechanisms for rationing medical resources
under emergency scenarios. Many argue that these mechanisms abandon various ethical …