Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid‐19.

The allocation of vaccines and therapeutics for Covid‐19 obviously raises ethical questions, and physicians and ethicists have begun to address them. Writers have identified various criteria that should guide allocation decisions, but the criteria often conflict and need to be balanced against one a...

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Publicado en:Hastings Center Report Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 39 - 47
Autores principales: Jansen, Lynn A., Wall, Steven
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2021
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