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This article reports the results of focus group and key informant interviews with clinicians regarding changes in their roles, identities, duties, and decision-making autonomy that may result from the need to implement crisis standards of care (CSC) during disaster triage, Read More

This editorial compares approaches in several European nations to triage of scarce critical care resources, such as ventilators. Specifically, it summarizes and contrasts provisions from plans adopted in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Belgium across a set Read More

This United Nations policy brief addresses the impact of COVID-19 on pre-existing inequalities and the need for inclusion of persons with disabilities. The brief emphasizes the need to ensure that persons with disabilities are fully included in COVID-19 response and Read More

This article from Bloomberg Law discusses some of the ways federal and state privacy, security and reimbursement rules have changed to accommodate telehealth and expand access to services during the pandemic, and discusses some of the steps health systems will Read More

This guidance from the EEOC clarifies the steps an employee should take to request reasonable accommodation from an employer based upon having a medical condition CDC indicates may put her at increased risk of Covid-19-related severe illness. The employee or Read More

This report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Health Security addresses key challenges facing healthcare facilities and healthcare workers  The report notes that surge capacity augmentation, deferral of some services, and implementation of crisis standards Read More

The editorial argues that the fairest approach to crisis triage and allocation of scarce resources requires use of clinical criteria applied to individualized patient assessment of likely recover, and not assumptions that favor or disfavor groups. The authors argue that Read More

This article compares the ventilator allocation policies of hospitals that are associated with members of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD), finding that at the time of survey over half of these hospitals did not have a ventilator triage Read More

This essay argues that DNR (do not resuscitate) status should not be considered as a factor in decisions to allocate scarce ventilators during a public health emergency. The authors note that some existing and proposed public health emergency resource allocation Read More

This article reports on the absence of a state plan for allocating scarce resources during a public health emergency in Florida and the implications of a patchwork of approaches should rationing be necessary in response to COVID-19 case surge. According Read More