Faced with the current time-sensitive COVID-19 pandemic, the overburdened healthcare
systems have resulted in a strong demand to develop newer methods to control the spread …

This Values Framework offers guidance globally on the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines
between countries, and to offer guidance nationally on the prioritization of groups for …

Abstract After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, the
elaboration of comprehensive and preventive public policies became important in order to …

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), including the latest COVID-19 pandemic, have
emerged and raised global public health crises in recent decades. Without existing …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the physical and emotional health of
older adults living with dementia and their care partners. Objective: Using a patient-centered …

Background ECMO is a particularly scarce resource during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its
allocation involves ethical considerations that may be different to usual times. There is …

Aim The aim of this study is to explore the moral distress experiences of nurse officers during
the COVID‐19 pandemic. Background Moral distress has emerged as a challenge for …

This paper proposes an approach for medical resource allocation among hospitals under
public health emergencies based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). First, the DEA non …

This article provides a critical comparative analysis of the substantive and procedural values
and ethical concepts articulated in guidelines for allocating scarce resources in the COVID …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact in the United States,
particularly for Black populations, and has heavily burdened the healthcare system …