Beyond individual triage: regional allocation of life-saving resources such as ventilators in public health emergencies
In the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers in some countries were forced to make distressing triaging decisions about which individual patients should receive potentially life-saving treatment. Much of the ethical discussion prompted by the pandemic has concerned which moral prin...
Main Authors: | Wilkinson, D, Pugh, J, Gonzales, CP, Savulescu, J |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Springer
2021
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