Across Canada, the coronavirus pandemic is increasing the demand for already scarce critical care resources. In the coming weeks, there is a very real chance that there won’t be enough ventilators and ...

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When evaluating patients presenting to an emergency department (ED), a quick, visual assessment ("eyeball triage") is better than a formal triage when it comes to predicting mortality, a study has ...

With recent announcements of increasingly stringent federal policies around recordkeeping and due diligence, compliance and investigation professionals are feeling the pressure to demonstrate ...

Disability rights advocates are concerned that crisis triage protocols aimed at allocating scarce health care resources to save the most lives could be biased against people with disabilities. These ...

A new paper suggests that unconscious biases in the health care system may have influenced how individuals with intellectual disabilities were categorized in emergency triage protocols. When COVID-19 ...

The draft emergency triage document is urgently circulating among specialists across the NHS in the absence of national guidelines Paul Nuki Global Health Security Editor, London Paul Nuki is Global ...

Doctors need an ethical system for rationing critical care if hospitals are overwhelmed. Currently there is no national guidance Paul Nuki Global Health Security Editor, London Paul Nuki is Global ...

To the editor: Thank you for your editorial opposing any triage system that takes disability, age or wealth into account. The Americans with Disabilities Act, which I authored, sought to ensure people ...

During the crush of the COVID-19 pandemic, overwhelmed doctors and nurses in some places have had to make agonizing decisions about which patients should receive scarce health care resources. However, ...

When COVID-19 patients began filling up ICUs throughout the country in 2020, health care providers faced difficult decisions. Health care workers had to decide which patients were most likely to ...