Rapid Development of a Tool for Prioritizing Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 for Intensive Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explain and demonstrate a new approach for rapidly developing a decision-support tool for prioritizing patients with coronovirus 2019 disease for admission to ICUs.

Design

An expert group used multi-criteria decision analysis methods to specify criteria and weights, representing their relative importance, for prioritizing patients with coronovirus 2019 disease with respect to likely clinical benefit. Specialized multi-criteria decision analysis software, implementing the "Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives" method to determine the weights, was used. Social equity considerations for prioritizing patients were also identified as important.

Setting

The prioritization tool was developed in New Zealand.

Subjects

An expert gr

SUBMITTER: Roy M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7994037 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature