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Rationing care in COVID-19: if we must do it, can we do better?

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a proposal for frailty to be used as a rationing criterion. This commentary suggests circumstances under which that is defensible: in the face of lack of capacity to treat everyone, and as an alternative to age in stratifying risk. How best to stratify risk is likely t...

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Autor principal: Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7543265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32939534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa202