Journal article
Public perspectives on COVID-19 triage protocols for access to critical care in extreme pandemic context
Abstract
COVID-19 triage protocols are resource allocation processes to deal with the potential lack of resources in Intensive Care Units (ICU). They have given rise to numerous ethical issues and controversies. Among them is the fear that people will be denied access to ICU on the basis of judgments about their quality of life, social value, frailty or age. This online Democratic Deliberation (DD) with members of the public aimed to discover the …
Authors
Bouthillier M-E; Farmer Y; Calderon Ramirez C; Downar J; Frolic A; Dahine J; Opatrny L; Poirier D; Bravo G; L'Espérance A
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 19, No. 12,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0314460
ISSN
1932-6203