An ethical algorithm for rationing life-sustaining treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Br J Anaesth. 2020 Sep;125(3):253-258. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.05.028. Epub 2020 Jun 2.

¹ Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: julian.savulescu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
² Italian Society of Anesthesia Analgesia Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI), Italy; Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Giovanni Bosco Hospital, Turin, Italy.
³ Department of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
⁴ Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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Keywords: COVID-19; decision-making; ethics; prognosis; resource allocation; triage; utilitarianism.

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