Journal article
What are the views of Quebec and Ontario citizens on the tiebreaker criteria for prioritizing access to adult critical care in the extreme context of a COVID-19 pandemic?
Abstract
BackgroundThe prioritization protocols for accessing adult critical care in the extreme pandemic context contain tiebreaker criteria to facilitate decision-making in the allocation of resources between patients with a similar survival prognosis. Besides being controversial, little is known about the public acceptability of these tiebreakers. In order to better understand the public opinion, Quebec and Ontario’s protocols were presented to the …
Authors
Calderon Ramirez C; Farmer Y; Frolic A; Bravo G; Gaucher NO; Payot A; Opatrny L; Poirier D; Dahine J; L’Espérance A
Journal
BMC Medical Ethics, Vol. 25, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
DOI
10.1186/s12910-024-01030-2
ISSN
1472-6939