Ventilator Allocation Protocols: Sophisticated Bioethics for an Unworkable Strategy

I was a member of the Massachusetts advisory working group that wrote the Commonwealth's crisis standards of care guidance for the Covid-19 pandemic, and I was proud of the work we did, thinking carefully about whether age should matter and whether priority should be given to essential workers...

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Main Author: Truog, Robert D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2021
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 5, Pages: 56-57
Further subjects:B allocation of scarce resources
B medical decision-making
B crisis standards of care
B Pandemic
B first served
B time-limited trial
B first come
B triage algorithm
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