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Eliminating Categorical Exclusion Criteria in Crisis Standards of Care Frameworks. [PDF]

Am J Bioeth, 2020
During public health crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, resource scarcity and contagion risks may require health systems to shift-to some degree-from a usual clinical ethic, focused on the well-being of individual patients, to a public health ethic, focused on population health.
Auriemma CL, Molinero AM, Houtrow AJ, Persad G, White DB, Halpern SD.   +5 more
europepmc   +5 more sources

Disability Rights as a Necessary Framework for Crisis Standards of Care and the Future of Health Care

Hastings Center Report, 2020
AbstractIn this essay, we suggest practical ways to shift the framing of crisis standards of care toward disability justice. We elaborate on the vision statement provided in the 2010 Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine) “Summary of Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations,” which emphasizes ...
Laura Guidry-Grimes, Katie Savin, Joseph A Stramondo   +2 more
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Disaster preparedness for intensive care units: Priorities to inform crisis standards of care

Australian Critical Care
The number of disasters occurring globally is increasing. Natural hazards, changing geopolitical situations, and increasing population densities may lead to an increased likelihood of a surge of patients requiring health care, some of whom might be requiring intensive care-level treatment.
David Sellers, Julia Crilly, Lynda Hughes   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Correction: Investigating ethical tradeoffs in crisis standards of care through simulation of ventilator allocation protocols. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300951.].
Jonathan Herington, Jessica Shand, Jeanne Holden-Wiltse, Anthony Corbett, Richard Dees, Chin-Lin Ching, Margie Shaw, Xueya Cai, Martin Zand   +8 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Crisis standards of care in a pandemic: navigating the ethical, clinical, psychological and policy-making maelstrom. [PDF]

Int J Qual Health Care, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused clinicians at the frontlines to confront difficult decisions regarding resource allocation, treatment options and ultimately the life-saving measures that must be taken at the point of care.
Hertelendy AJ, Ciottone GR, Mitchell CL, Gutberg J, Burkle FM.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

US State Government Crisis Standards of Care Guidelines: Implications for Patients With Cancer. [PDF]

JAMA Oncol, 2021
State crisis standards of care (CSC) guidelines in the US allocate scarce health care resources among patients. Anecdotal reports suggest that guidelines may disproportionately allocate resources away from patients with cancer, but no comprehensive evaluation has been performed.To examine the implications of US state CSC guidelines for patients with ...
Hantel A, Marron JM, Casey M, Kurtz S, Magnavita E, Abel GA.   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Age and Saving Lives in Crisis Standards of Care: A Multicenter Cohort Study of Triage Score Prognostic Accuracy [PDF]

Critical Care Explorations
IMPORTANCE:. Current protocols to triage life support use scores that are biased and inaccurate. OBJECTIVES:. To determine if adding age to triage protocols used in disaster scenarios improves the identification of critically ill patients likely to ...
Michael Hermsen, MD, MS, Patrick G. Lyons, MD, MS, Govind Persad, JD, PhD, Alice F. Bewley, MS, Chengsheng Mao, PhD, Kaveri Chhikara, MS, Anoop Mayampurath, PhD, Matthew Churpek, MD, PhD, Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MSc, Yuan Luo, PhD, William F. Parker, MD, PhD   +10 more
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Standard Racism: Trying to Use “Crisis Standards of Care” in the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2021
Lowering the standard of care in a pandemic is a recipe for inferior care and discrimination. Wealthy white patients will continue to get “standard of care” medicine, while the poor and racial mino...
George J, Annas, Sondra S, Crosby
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Crisis Standards of Care Implementation at the State Level in the United States [PDF]

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2020
AbstractIntroduction:In 2009, the Institute of Medicine published guidelines for implementation of Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) at the state level in the United States (US). Based in part on the then concern for H1N1 pandemic, there was a recognized need for additional planning at the state level to maintain health system preparedness and ...
Margus, Colton, Sarin, Ritu R., Molloy, Michael, Ciottone, Gregory R.   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Empirical Assessment of COVID-19 Crisis Standards of Care Guidelines [PDF]

, 2020
Abstract Background Several states have released Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) guidelines for the allocation of scarce critical care resources. Most guidelines rely on Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores to maximize lives saved, but states have adopted different stances on whether to ...
Jezmir JL, Bharadwaj M, Kishore SP, Winkler M, Diephuis B, Kim EY, Feldman WB.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources