RT Article
T1 The University of California Crisis Standards of Care: Public Reasoning for Socially Responsible Medicine
JF The Hastings Center report
VO 51
IS 5
SP 30
OP 41
A1 Rajczi, Alex
A1 Daar, Judith
A1 Kheriaty, Aaron
A1 Dastur, Cyrus
LA English
PB Wiley
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/177092826X
AB 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.
K1 Public values
K1 Covid-19
K1 Resource Allocation
K1 crisis standards of care
K1 Triage
DO 10.1002/hast.1284