Age Matters but it should not be Used to Discriminate Against the Elderly in Allocating Scarce Resources in the Context of COVID-19.

Autor: de Castro-Hamoy L; National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines.; Department of Pediatrics, Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines., de Castro LD; Department of Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Asian bioethics review [Asian Bioeth Rev] 2020 Jun 16; Vol. 12 (3), pp. 331-340. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 16 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI: 10.1007/s41649-020-00130-6
Abstrakt: A patient's age serves as a very useful guide to physicians in deciding what disease manifestations to anticipate, what treatment to offer for certain conditions, and how to prepare for possible emergencies. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, determining treatment options on the basis of a patient's chronological age can easily give rise to unjustified discrimination. This is of particular significance in situations where the allocation of scarce critical care resources could have a direct impact on who will live and who will die. This paper examines the fairness of recommendations contained in resource allocation guidelines in the Philippines that have implications for the way elderly patients could be treated or excluded from some forms of critical care treatment in the context of the ongoing Corona virus emergency.
Competing Interests: Conflicts of InterestThe authors declare that they have no competing interests
(© National University of Singapore and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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