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Fractures in the Austrian Model of Long-Term Care: What are the Lessons from the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Journal of Long-Term Care, 2021
Context: The COVID-19 pandemic highlights limitations of long-term care (LTC) systems in Europe, which continue to be divided between health and social care, and between formal and informal care.
Kai Leichsenring, Andrea E. Schmidt, Heidemarie Staflinger   +2 more
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Enhancing crisis standards of care using innovative point-of-care testing [PDF]

American Journal of Disaster Medicine, 2011
Objective: To identify strategies with tactics that enable point-of-care (POC) testing (medical testing at or near the site of care) to effectively improve outcomes in emergencies, disasters, and public health crises, especially where community infrastructure is compromised.Design: Logic model-critical path-feedback identified needs for improving ...
Gerald J, Kost, Ann, Sakaguchi, Corbin, Curtis, Nam K, Tran, Pratheep, Katip, Richard F, Louie   +5 more
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Management of COVID-19-related challenges faced by EMS personnel: a qualitative study

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background As the first link in the chain of providing healthcare services in the frontline of the battle against COVID-19, emergency medical services (EMS) personnel are faced with various challenges, which affect their professional performance.
Fateme Mohammadi, Banafsheh Tehranineshat, Mostafa Bijani, Ali Asghar Khaleghi   +3 more
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A proposal for selective resuscitation of adult cardiac arrest patients in a pandemic

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020
Allocation of limited resources in pandemics begs for ethical guidance. The issue of ventilator allocation in pandemics has been reviewed by many medical ethicists, but as localities activate crisis standards of care, and health care workers are infected
Antony Hsu, William Weber, Alan Heins, Elaine Josephson, Robert Kornberg, Rosemarie Diaz   +5 more
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Quand la morale du soignant devient l’éthique du soin. Conflits éthiques et normes professionnelles en médecines de la reproduction et palliative

La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 2013
The article studies what patients say about the rules underlying medical decision-making in their criticisms of care standards’ morality. It assumes that the ethics of medical decision-making and the actual care itself can be explained by the subjective ...
Philippe Bataille, Louise Virole
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A Digitally Capable Mobile Health Clinic to Improve Rural Health Care in America: A Pilot Quality Improvement Study

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2022
Objective: To address the problem of limited health care access for patients in rural southern Minnesota, a digitally capable mobile health clinic (MHC) quality improvement initiative was launched in a rural community-based health system.
Asif Iqbal, MBA, Gokhan Anil, MD, Pawan Bhandari, PhD, MS, Eric D. Crockett, FACMPE, Victoria M. Hanson, PhD, Bhushan S. Pendse, MS, PMP, Jonathan S. Eckdahl, MBA, Jennifer L. Horn, MD   +7 more
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Revisiting Legal Foundations of Crisis Standards of Care [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
In the decade since the original development of crisis standards of care (CSC) via the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, multiple legal/policy concerns have arisen, centered on 2 key questions: (1) what legal “triggers” justify shifts to CSC?; and (2) what evidence substantiates critical medical/ public health choices?
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Assessment of Disparities Associated With a Crisis Standards of Care Resource Allocation Algorithm for Patients in 2 US Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

JAMA Netw Open, 2021
Importance: Significant concern has been raised that crisis standards of care policies aimed at guiding resource allocation may be biased against people based on race/ethnicity.
Gershengorn HB, Holt GE, Rezk A, Delgado S, Shah N, Arora A, Colucci LB, Mora B, Iyengar RS, Lopez A, Martinez BM, West J, Goodman KW, Kett DH, Brosco JP.   +14 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Ethical dilemmas in the era of COVID-19

Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed an extraordinary demand on health systems and healthcare providers all over the world. The pandemic presented a number of unprecedented challenging ethical issues.
Hassan Chamsi-Pasha, Majed Chamsi-Pasha, Mohammed A Albar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Therapeutic Apheresis in Nigeria: A Multi‐Center Summary of Abstracts From the Inaugural Nigerian Society for Apheresis Scientific Meeting

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Therapeutic apheresis (TA) is an established treatment modality for hematologic, neurologic, and immunologic disorders, yet access remains severely limited in sub‐Saharan Africa. Donor apheresis, including platelet apheresis collection from healthy donors, represents an important complementary modality supporting blood product ...
Nosa Bazuaye, Chimezie Okwuonu, Evelyn Idam, Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola, Shakirat Gold‐Olufadi, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Abdullateef Ogala, Zinnah Aloziem, Blossom Amamchukwu, Patience Elimia, Mkpoikanabasi Obot‐Obot, Henry Mbakwe, Praises Maduagwuna, Olatunji Akinrodoye, Chiamaka Anyanwu, Benjamin Anyanwu, Adedamola Akinsiku, Oluwatoyin A. Akinsiku, Muzamil O. Hassan, Fatiu A. Arogundade, Olalekan E. Ojo, Homayemem Weli, Jesupelumi Adenihun, Aderemi Adelaja, Ebun Bamgboye, Olalekan Olatise, Ade E. Faponle, Ayoola Odeyemi, Michael Muoka, Stephen Asaolu, Qudrat Busari, Blessing Dawudu, Michael Naiyeju, Rasheed A. Balogun   +33 more
wiley   +1 more source