General Public Preferences for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources During COVID-19. Academic Article

abstract

• COVID-19 has overwhelmed healthcare systems across the globe with an unprecedented surge in the demand for hospitalizations. Consequently, many hospitals are facing precarious conditions due to limited capacity, especially in the provision of ventilators. The governing ethical principles of medical practice delineated in (1) favor prioritizing younger patients, largely because of their relatively higher expected life years. We conduct a survey of the general public in the United States to elicit their preferences for the allocation of a limited number of ventilators. The results show that the general public views align with the established ethical principles, which favor younger patients. JEL Classification: C91.

authors

• Nayga, Rodolfo
• Palma, Marco

published proceedings

• Front Public Health

altmetric score

• 1.25

author list (cited authors)

• Huseynov, S., Palma, M. A., & Nayga, R. M.

citation count

• 10

complete list of authors

• Huseynov, Samir||Palma, Marco A||Nayga, Rodolfo M

publication date

• January 2020

publisher

• Frontiers  Publisher

published in

• Frontiers in Public Health  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Covid-19
• Ethics
• Female
• Health Care Rationing
• Hospitalization
• Humans
• Male
• Principles
• Prognosis
• Quality-adjusted Life Years
• Resource Allocation
• Scarce
• Triage
• United States
• Ventilators
• Ventilators, Mechanical

PubMed Central ID

• 33363084

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3389/fpubh.2020.587423

start page

• 587423

volume

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.587423