COVID-19: instruments for the allocation of mechanical ventilators—a narrative review

MJ Dos Santos, MS Martins, FLP Santana… - Critical Care, 2020 - Springer
Abstract After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, the
elaboration of comprehensive and preventive public policies became important in order to …

Ethics, pandemic and environment; looking at the future of low middle income countries

F Tanveer, AT Khalil, M Ali, ZK Shinwari - International Journal for Equity in …, 2020 - Springer
COVID-19 which started in Wuhan, China and swiftly expanded geographically worldwide,
including to Low to Middle Income Countries (LMICs). This in turn raised numerous ethical …

Machine learning for emerging infectious disease field responses

HYR Chiu, CK Hwang, SY Chen, FY Shih, HC Han… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), including the latest COVID-19 pandemic, have
emerged and raised global public health crises in recent decades. Without existing …

The impact of a global pandemic on people living with dementia and their care partners: analysis of 417 lived experience reports

MT Tam, JA Dosso, JM Robillard - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the physical and emotional health of
older adults living with dementia and their care partners. Objective: Using a patient-centered …

Emergency medical resource allocation among hospitals with non-regressive production technology: A DEA-based approach

J Chu, X Li, Z Yuan - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an approach for medical resource allocation among hospitals under
public health emergencies based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). First, the DEA non …

Application of multi-gene genetic programming to the prognosis prediction of COVID-19 using routine hematological variables

HR Niazkar, J Moshari, A Khajavi, M Ghorbani… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Identifying patients who may develop severe COVID-19 has been of interest to clinical
physicians since it facilitates personalized treatment and optimizes the allocation of medical …

The potential impact of triage protocols on racial disparities in clinical outcomes among COVID-positive patients in a large academic healthcare system

S Roy, M Showstark, B Tolchin, N Kashyap, J Bonito… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact in the United States,
particularly for Black populations, and has heavily burdened the healthcare system …

Ethical factors determining ECMO allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic

B Dao, J Savulescu, JY Suen, JF Fraser… - BMC Medical …, 2021 - Springer
Background ECMO is a particularly scarce resource during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its
allocation involves ethical considerations that may be different to usual times. There is …

[HTML][HTML] Application of big data and artificial intelligence in epidemic surveillance and containment

Z Jiao, H Ji, J Yan, X Qi - Intelligent medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Faced with the current time-sensitive COVID-19 pandemic, the overburdened healthcare
systems have resulted in a strong demand to develop newer methods to control the spread …

The experience of moral distress by chief nurse officers during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A descriptive phenomenological study

A Atli Özbaş, MS Kovancı - Journal of Nursing Management, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim of this study is to explore the moral distress experiences of nurse officers during
the COVID‐19 pandemic. Background Moral distress has emerged as a challenge for …