Emergency care, triage, and fairness

Triage is a widespread principle for prioritizing patients in emergency departments. The purpose of triage is to ensure that in emergency situations, whenever medical demand exceeds medical supply, limited resources should be directed to the case with the greatest clinical need. Triage fulfills this...

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Main Author: Lauridsen, Sigurd (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Bioethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 5, Pages: 450-458
IxTheo Classification:NCH Medical ethics
Further subjects:B patient involvement
B emergency departments
B sub-acute patients
B priority-setting
B accountability for reasonableness
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