Israeli Position Paper: Triage Decisions for Severely Ill Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Joint Commission of the Israel National Bioethics Council, the Ethics Bureau of the Israel Medical Association and Representatives from the Israeli Ministry of Health
| Autor: | Avraham Steinberg, Ephrat Levy-Lahad, Tami Karni, Noam Zohar, Gil Siegal, Charles L. Sprung, Israel National Bioethics Council, Ethics Bureau of the Israel Medical Association, Representatives from the Israeli Ministry of Health |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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COVID-19 pandemic
Commission 01 natural sciences ventilators 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Political science Pandemic 030212 general & internal medicine 0101 mathematics intensive care Special Issue on the COVID-19 Pandemic national policy business.industry 010102 general mathematics Equity (finance) National Position Paper General Medicine Bioethics Public relations Triage Transparency (behavior) Public trust Position paper business triage |
| Zdroj: | Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal |
| ISSN: | 2076-9172 |
| Popis: | Objectives This document provides an English translation of the Israeli Joint Commission's national guidelines for triaging severely ill patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods Four subcommittees of medical, legal, ethical-social, and religious experts developed the general principles and practical medical criteria for triaging scarce life-saving resources. Results The guidelines provide an overview of general principles as well as pragmatic medical criteria and a practical triage protocol to be followed should the healthcare system be overwhelmed due to COVID-19. Issues covered include triggers for activating the guidelines, guiding ethical, legal, and religious principles, equity in access, fair distribution, transparency, consistency, palliation, medical policy prioritization, problem-solving mechanisms, and public trust. Conclusions The Israeli consensus document and pragmatic medical triage protocol offer a societal and medical roadmap for allocating scarce resources during the COVID-19 pandemic or other disasters. |
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