Public perspectives on COVID-19 triage protocols for access to critical care in extreme pandemic context.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 triage protocols are resource allocation processes to deal with the potential lack of resources in Intensive Care Units (ICU). They have given rise to numerous ethical issues and controversies. Among them is the fear that people will be denied access to ICU on the basis of judgments about their quality of life, social value, frailty or age. This online Democratic Deliberation (DD) with members of the public aimed to discover the necessary considerations and conditions that make triage protocols more acceptable to guide future decisions in terms of the values and criteria that must underpin triage protocols. We simultaneously conducted the online DD in Quebec and Ontario on May 28th and June 4th, 2022, among adults who do not work in the healthcare sector, recruited randomly among

SUBMITTER: Bouthillier ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11651564 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature