Managing Older Adults with Presumed COVID-19 in the Emergency Department: A Rational Approach to Rationing

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Aug;68(8):1631-1635. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16651. Epub 2020 Jul 13.

Tony Rosen¹, Lauren E Ferrante², Shan W Liu³, Emily A Benton⁴, Mary R Mulcare¹, Michael E Stern¹, Kevin Biese⁵, Ula Hwang^{6

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8}, Martine Sanon⁷

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine / NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York.
² Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ NewYork-Presbyterian Emergency Medicine Residency Program, New York, New York.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
⁷ Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
⁸ Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VAMC, Bronx, New York.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Emergency Department; Older adults; Rationing; Resource allocation.

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