Palliating a Pandemic: “All Patients Must Be Cared For”

In the event of an overwhelming influenza pandemic, many health care systems will implement a triage system that would potentially deny critical care treatment to some seriously ill patients. Although all triage systems have guaranteed palliative care for those who are denied critical care, no juris...

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Autores principales: Downar, James, Seccareccia, Dori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: U.S. Cancer Pain Relief Committee. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20152591
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2009.11.241
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spelling pubmed-71355172020-04-08 Palliating a Pandemic: “All Patients Must Be Cared For” Downar, James Seccareccia, Dori J Pain Symptom Manage Special Article In the event of an overwhelming influenza pandemic, many health care systems will implement a triage system that would potentially deny critical care treatment to some seriously ill patients. Although all triage systems have guaranteed palliative care for those who are denied critical care, no jurisdiction has yet developed a plan to accommodate the anticipated “surge” in demand for palliative care. The authors present a mathematical and ethical justification for a palliative care surge plan and outline some of the key elements that should be included in such a plan. U.S. Cancer Pain Relief Committee. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2010-02 2010-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7135517/ /pubmed/20152591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2009.11.241 Text en Copyright © 2010 U.S. Cancer Pain Relief Committee. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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