Healthcare workers' opinions on non-medical criteria for prioritisation of access to care during the pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic generated overflow of healthcare systems in several countries. As the ethical debates focused on prioritisation for access to care with scarce medical resources, numerous recommendations were created. Late 2021, the emergence of the Omicron variant whose transmissibility was identified but whose vaccine sensitivity was still unknown, reactivated debates. Fears of the need to prioritise patients arose, particularly in France. Especially, a debate began about the role of vaccination status in the prioritisation strategy.

Material and methods

The Ethics Committee (EC) of the University Hospital of Bordeaux (UHB), France, identified prioritisation criteria in the literature (some recommended, such as being a healthcare worker (HCW) or having co

SUBMITTER: Haaser T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11574983 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature