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  1. Making complex decisions in uncertain times: experiences of Dutch GPs as gatekeepers regarding hospital referrals during COVID-19—a qualitative study.Anne B. Wichmann, Yvonne Engels, Jaap Schuurmans, Janneke Dujardin & Dieke Westerduin - 2021 - BMC Medical Ethics 22 (1):1-8.
    BackgroundGeneral practitioners often act as gatekeeper, authorizing patients’ access to hospital care. This gatekeeping role became even more important during the current COVID-19 crisis as uncertainties regarding COVID-19 made estimating the desirability of hospital referrals (for outpatient or inpatient hospitalization) complex, both for COVID and non-COVID suspected patients. This study explored Dutch general practitioners’ experiences and ethical dilemmas faced in decision making about hospital referrals in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsSemi-structured interviews with Dutch general practitioners working in the Netherlands were (...)
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  • The Other Side of Triage: When Access to Intensive Care Measures May Do More Harm than Good.Mark D. Siegel, Danish Zaidi & Katherine J. Feder - 2021 - American Journal of Bioethics 21 (11):79-82.
    During periods of scarcity, or the fear of it, many health systems create or adopt triage protocols to determine how to best allocate limited resources. Interest in such protocols has become acute...
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  • Operative public values as a tool for healthcare decisions: the social value and clinical criteria of triage.Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues - 2022 - Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 17 (1):1-5.
    With the current pandemic, many scholars have contended that clinical criteria offer the best way to implement triage. Further, they dismiss the criteria of social value as a good one for triage. In this paper, I respond to refute this perspective. In particular, I present two sets of arguments. Firstly, I argue that the objections to the social value criteria they present apply to the clinical criteria they favor. Secondly, they exaggerate the negative aspects of the social value criteria, while (...)
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  • Is It Possible to Allocate Life? Triage, Ageism, and Narrative Identity.Mahmut Alpertunga Kara - 2023 - The New Bioethics 29 (4):322-339.
    Triage protocols can exclude older patients for the sake of effectiveness and this may be defended as the older have already had their fair share of life, which can mean fair amounts or complete lives. Nevertheless, if life is considered as a narrative, mentioning amounts might be nonsensical. Narratives have a quality of unity; so, life events are fragments whose meanings are dependent on the meaning of the whole. Thus, time units do not represent a reliable measure of the content (...)
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  • A Journal of the COVID-19 (Plague) Year.Brian H. Childs & Laura Vearrier - 2021 - HEC Forum 33 (1-2):1-6.
    The essays in this special issue of HEC Forum provide reflections that make explicit the implicit anthropology that our current pandemic has brought but which in the medical ethics literature around COVID-19 has to a great extent ignored. Three of the essays are clearly “journalistic” as a literary genre: one by a hospital chaplain, one by a medical student in her pre-clinical years, and one by a fourth-year medical student who reports her experience as she completed her undergraduate clerkships and (...)
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  • Standard Racism: Trying to Use “Crisis Standards of Care” in the COVID-19 Pandemic.Sondra S. Crosby & George J. Annas - 2021 - American Journal of Bioethics 21 (8):1-3.
    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...
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