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tabindex="-1"> <div class="row">  <div class="col-md-8 content-area" id="primary"> <main class="site-main" id="main"> <header class="page-header"> <h1 class="page-title">Category: <span>Distributive justice</span></h1> </header> <article class="post-4235 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-clinical-ethics category-distributive-justice" id="post-4235"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/12/the-sequential-organ-failure-assessment-sofa-and-revised-ventilator-triage-guidance-since-we-are-still-implementing-outdated-and-more-inequitable-frameworks-now-will-we-learn-any-lessons-longer-te/" rel="bookmark">The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and revised ventilator triage guidance: since we are still implementing outdated and more inequitable frameworks now, will we learn any lessons longer term?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/12/the-sequential-organ-failure-assessment-sofa-and-revised-ventilator-triage-guidance-since-we-are-still-implementing-outdated-and-more-inequitable-frameworks-now-will-we-learn-any-lessons-longer-te/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-12T21:39:50+01:00">October 12, 2021</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and revised ventilator triage guidance: since we are still implementing outdated and more inequitable frameworks now, will we learn any lessons longer term?' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/12/the-sequential-organ-failure-assessment-sofa-and-revised-ventilator-triage-guidance-since-we-are-still-implementing-outdated-and-more-inequitable-frameworks-now-will-we-learn-any-lessons-longer-te/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Harald Schmidt, Dorothy E Roberts, Amaka D Eneanya Ventilator triage guidance can reduce, maintain, or exacerbate existing social, racial and ethnic health inequities, raising non-trivial legal issues. Over the last 18 months, there has been an intense reckoning with the fact that traditional rationing frameworks focused on maximizing overall benefits tend to worsen Covid-19’s disparate impact on disadvantaged communities of color. Yet, as ICUs […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/12/the-sequential-organ-failure-assessment-sofa-and-revised-ventilator-triage-guidance-since-we-are-still-implementing-outdated-and-more-inequitable-frameworks-now-will-we-learn-any-lessons-longer-te/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and revised ventilator triage guidance: since we are still implementing outdated and more inequitable frameworks now, will we learn any lessons longer term?' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/12/the-sequential-organ-failure-assessment-sofa-and-revised-ventilator-triage-guidance-since-we-are-still-implementing-outdated-and-more-inequitable-frameworks-now-will-we-learn-any-lessons-longer-te/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/clinical-ethics/" rel="category tag">clinical ethics</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/distributive-justice/" rel="category tag">Distributive justice</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/12/the-sequential-organ-failure-assessment-sofa-and-revised-ventilator-triage-guidance-since-we-are-still-implementing-outdated-and-more-inequitable-frameworks-now-will-we-learn-any-lessons-longer-te/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="4235 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=4235">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-4094 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-distributive-justice category-pandemic" id="post-4094"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/helping-global-neighbors-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/" rel="bookmark">Helping global neighbors during the COVID-19 pandemic</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/helping-global-neighbors-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-11T23:50:09+01:00">October 11, 2021</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Helping global neighbors during the COVID-19 pandemic' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/helping-global-neighbors-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Nancy S. Jecker, Aaron G. Wightman, Douglas S. Diekema Why should high-income nations help their global neighbors during a pandemic emergency? If they help, what is a just way to distribute the goods and services they make available? In “Vaccine Ethics: An Ethical Framework for Global Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines,” we take up these […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/helping-global-neighbors-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Helping global neighbors during the COVID-19 pandemic' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/helping-global-neighbors-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/distributive-justice/" rel="category tag">Distributive justice</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/pandemic/" rel="category tag">Pandemic</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/helping-global-neighbors-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="4094 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=4094">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-4155 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-distributive-justice category-pandemic" id="post-4155"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/lessons-from-pandemic-priority-setting/" rel="bookmark">Lessons from pandemic priority-setting</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/lessons-from-pandemic-priority-setting/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-10-11T23:44:31+01:00">October 11, 2021</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Lessons from pandemic priority-setting' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/lessons-from-pandemic-priority-setting/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Keegan Guidolin, Jessica Marangos, Fayez Quereshy University Health Network (UHN) is the largest hospital system in Canada and delivers health services ranging from primary to quaternary care to over six-million people in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, like many other hospitals and in response to […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/lessons-from-pandemic-priority-setting/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Lessons from pandemic priority-setting' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/lessons-from-pandemic-priority-setting/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/distributive-justice/" rel="category tag">Distributive justice</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/pandemic/" rel="category tag">Pandemic</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/10/11/lessons-from-pandemic-priority-setting/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="4155 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=4155">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-4099 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-distributive-justice category-pandemic" id="post-4099"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/09/07/does-the-public-think-age-matters-in-covid-19-triage/" rel="bookmark">Does the public think age matters in COVID-19 triage?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/09/07/does-the-public-think-age-matters-in-covid-19-triage/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2021-09-07T23:12:26+01:00">September 7, 2021</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Does the public think age matters in COVID-19 triage?' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/09/07/does-the-public-think-age-matters-in-covid-19-triage/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Margot N I Kuylen On what basis should we allocate resources when resources are scarce? The COVID-19 pandemic has made this complex ethical question extremely salient, as newspapers reported at various points that critical care units across the world were reaching, or even exceeding, their capacity. A wealth of triage guidance has been published […]</p> <p><a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/09/07/does-the-public-think-age-matters-in-covid-19-triage/">Read More…</a></p> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='Does the public think age matters in COVID-19 triage?' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/09/07/does-the-public-think-age-matters-in-covid-19-triage/' data-app-id-name='category_below_content'></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/distributive-justice/" rel="category tag">Distributive justice</a>, <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/category/pandemic/" rel="category tag">Pandemic</a></span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/09/07/does-the-public-think-age-matters-in-covid-19-triage/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="4099 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=4099">Leave a comment</span></a></span> </footer> </article> <article class="post-4221 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-distributive-justice category-pandemic" id="post-4221"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/08/27/how-should-we-ration-care-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/" rel="bookmark">How should we ration care during the COVID-19 pandemic?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/08/27/how-should-we-ration-care-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-08-27T13:09:40+01:00">August 27, 2021</time></a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <div style='display:none;' class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-title='How should we ration care during the COVID-19 pandemic?' data-link='https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/08/27/how-should-we-ration-care-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/' data-app-id-name='category_above_content'></div><p>By Liam Butchart, Kristin Krumenacker, Aymen Baig. As we have all seen over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic so far, our healthcare systems are not built for the stress of the deluge of patients who have presented with illness from the virus. 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More than 625,000 people in the United States and over 4.4 million people worldwide have died from Covid-19. As the Delta variant surges, many hospitals find themselves caring for patients in hallways, with no ECMO available and every ICU bed taken. 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Chen, Jordan Taylor, Mary Faith Marshall Early in the Covid-19 pandemic hospitals and health systems scrambled to create and adopt guidelines for rationing critical care resources in the event of scarcity. 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Smith COVID-19 vaccines are in limited supply, and so it’s crucial that their harm-reducing powers are deployed strategically. This likely requires two things: (1) prioritizing vaccines to those at greatest risk of mortality, hospitalization, transmission, and/or infection; and (2) administering vaccinations as rapidly as possible. 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