Hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers are facing unprecedented ethical and legal challenges related to the shortage of critical-care resources for patients during the coronavirus ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Joseph Millum and Govind Persad Guest Commentary As cases of severe COVID-19 illness spike across America, it is increasingly evident that demand for ...

As doctors work to save the most lives possible, they may soon need to choose which lives to save. The process of deciding who gets care first, called triage, received an update in Pennsylvania on ...

State officials have issued new emergency triage guidelines on the use of scarce hospital resources for critically ill patients in New Jersey, should the public health emergency over the coronavirus ...

One change to field triage guidelines for emergency medical services (EMS) responding to older adults with head trauma could make a "clinically important improvement over usual care," according to a ...

Eleven days after publishing a bulletin reminding covered entities that decisions concerning whether an individual is a candidate for treatment should not be based on a person’s age or disability, the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an imbalance between the clinical needs of the population and the effective availability of advanced life ...

As a general recommendation, the guidelines advise that determination of patients' case status (ie, risk of death time frame) be made by a multidisciplinary team, ideally in a multi-clinician setting ...