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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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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To reduce long waits in the emergency department (ED), our hospital begins workups in the lobby waiting area (e.g., ECG, CT scans, labs). These tests are ordered with limited patient history and ...

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, ...

A study conducted by clinicians from KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) and researchers at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), which evaluated and demonstrated the safety and ...