Coronavirus outbreak: How can providers allocate resources fairly?

March 23, 2020 / Modern Healthcare

Dr. Zeke Emanuel and several other experts write in NEJM that COVID-19 has already sparked medical resource rationing. Ultimately, providers need to consider four values as they allocate resources and treat patients: maximizing benefits, treating equally, promoting and rewarding instrumental value and giving priority to those worst off.

While coronavirus is a pandemic at this point, the authors note that clinicians need to apply the same resource allocation principles to those infected with the virus and other patients in their facilities. 

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