The Stateline (3/31) reports healthcare facilities are wrestling with the ethical aspects of rationing care in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Philip Rosoff, “an emeritus professor of pediatrics at Duke University and longtime chairman of the Duke Medical Center ethics board, said decisions should be made on the best and most current clinical evidence and with one question uppermost: Who stands to best benefit from the limited quantity of lifesaving treatment?” Those guidelines, “Rosoff said, should explicitly state that ‘allocations will be based on clinical evidence only and without consideration of social, ethnic, economic and other non-clinical considerations of people.
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