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The University of California Crisis Standards of Care: Public Reasoning for Socially Responsible Medicine.

Authors :
Rajczi, Alex
Daar, Judith
Kheriaty, Aaron
Dastur, Cyrus
Source :
Hastings Center Report. Sep2021, Vol. 51 Issue 5, p30-41. 12p.
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

During the Covid‐19 pandemic, the University of California convened the University of California Critical Care Bioethics Working Group, a team of twenty individuals tasked with developing a set of triage procedures. This article highlights several crucial components of the UC procedures and describes the reasoning behind them. The recommendations and the reasoning in the UC protocol are distinctive because of the emphasis the working group placed on grounding its decisions on the public's preferences for triage protocols. To highlight the distinctiveness of the recommendations and reasoning, this article contrasts the UC procedures with the triage procedures known as the "Pittsburgh framework." Among the specific topics discussed are age discrimination, disability discrimination, the prioritization of critical workers for scarce resources, and triage priority for pregnant patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00930334
Volume :
51
Issue :
5
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Hastings Center Report
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
152493430
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.1284