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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

Background

The 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 tiebreaker. In order to better understand the public opinion, Quebec and Ontario’s protocols were presented to the …

Authors

Ramirez CC; Farmer Y; Frolic A; Bravo G; Gaucher NO; Payot A; Opatrny L; Poirier D; Dahine J; L'Espérance A

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-3346484/v1

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