Guidelines and Protocols for Hospitals
Last Updated 08/04/2020
- Nancy Berlinger et al., Access to Therapeutic and Palliative Drugs in the Context of COVID-19: Justice and the Relief of Suffering, The Hastings Center, July 14, 2020.
- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Model Hospital Policy for Fair Allocation of Scarce Medications to Treat COVID-19, May 28, 2020.
- Nancy Berlinger et al., COVID-19 as a Regional Public Health Challenge: Preliminary Guidelines for Regional Collaboration Involving Hospitals, The Hastings Center, April 29, 2020.
- Armand H. Matheny Antommaria et al., “Ventilator Triage Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic at U.S. Hospitals Associated with Members of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors,” Annals of Internal Medicine, April 24, 2020.
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Ethics Framework for Use in Acute Paediatric Settings During COVID-19 Pandemic, April 16, 2020.
- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Allocation of Critical Care Resources During a Public Health Emergency, April 15, 2020.
- Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture SIUT, COVID-19 Pandemic: Guidelines for Ethical Healthcare Decision-Making in Pakistan, April 15, 2020.
- Sydney Health Ethics, An Ethics Framework for Making Resource Allocation Decisions within Clinical Care: Responding to COVID-19, April 2, 2020.
- Critical Care Society of Southern Africa, Allocation of Scarce Critical Care Resources During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency in South Africa, April 2, 2020.
- Wendy Rogers and Stacy Carter, Ethical Considerations Regarding Allocation of Ventilators/ICU Beds During Pandemic-Associated Scarcity.
- University of Virginia Health System Ethics Committee, Ethical Framework and Recommendations for COVID-19 Resources Allocation When Scarcity is Anticipated, March 26, 2020.
- Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Ethics Principles Concerning Proportionality of Critical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Advice by the Belgian Society of IC Medicine, March 18, 2020.
- Nancy Berlinger et al, “Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions and Guidelines for Institutional Ethics Services Responding to the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic,” The Hastings Center, March 16, 2020.
- John L. Hick et al., Duty to Plan: Health Care, Crisis Standards of Care, and Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, National Academy of Medicine, March 5, 2020.
- T.J. Papadimos et al., “Ethics of Outbreaks Position Statement. Part 1: Therapies, Treatment Limitations, and Duty to Treat,” Critical Care Medicine 46 (2018): 1842-1855.
- T.J. Papadimos et al., “Ethics of Outbreaks Position Statement. Part 2: Family-Centered Care,” Critical Care Medicine 46 (2018): 1856-1860.
- Sheri L. Fink, “Worst Case: Rethinking Tertiary Triage Protocols in Pandemics and Other Health Emergencies,” Critical Care 14 (2010): 1-3.
- John L. Hick et al., “Clinical Review: Allocating Ventilators During Large-Scale Disasters: Problems, Planning, and Process,” Critical Care 11 (2007): 1-9.
- John L. Hick and Daniel T. O’Laughlin, “Concept of Operations for Triage of Mechanical Ventilation in an Epidemic,” Academic Emergency Medicine 13 (2006): 223-229.