Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical Approach

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Autor(a) principal: Sobral, Margarida
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Rosa, Bárbara Santa, Silvestre, Margarida
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/103548
https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.16142
Resumo: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought dramatic worldwide consequences affecting social, economic and healthcare systems. Considering that the number of infected patients requiring admission to intensive care units far exceeded the available resources, healthcare professionals have had to face challenging decisions concerning who should benefit from the limited resources and who should not. In this context, after a careful ethical reflection, we propose some principles to be adopted when dealing with allocation resource decisions, based on core ethical values. Ideally, these strategies should be established and integrated into institutional policies before a crisis scenario, in order to anticipate a potential new public health emergency and prevent possible tragic consequences.
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spelling Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical ApproachAlocação de Recursos Durante a Pandemia COVID-19: Contributos para uma Abordagem ÉticaCOVID-19EthicsPandemicsResource AllocationSARS-CoV-2Alocação de RecursosCOVID-19ÉticaPandemiaSARS-CoV-2HumansIntensive Care UnitsResource AllocationSARS-CoV-2COVID-19PandemicsThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought dramatic worldwide consequences affecting social, economic and healthcare systems. Considering that the number of infected patients requiring admission to intensive care units far exceeded the available resources, healthcare professionals have had to face challenging decisions concerning who should benefit from the limited resources and who should not. In this context, after a careful ethical reflection, we propose some principles to be adopted when dealing with allocation resource decisions, based on core ethical values. Ideally, these strategies should be established and integrated into institutional policies before a crisis scenario, in order to anticipate a potential new public health emergency and prevent possible tragic consequences.A pandemia por COVID-19 associa-se a consequências dramáticas a nível social, económico e dos sistemas de saúde. Tendo em conta que o número de pacientes críticos ultrapassa consideravelmente o número de recursos hospitalares disponíveis, os profissionais de saúde depararam-se com decisões difíceis, nomeadamente determinar quais os pacientes que deveriam beneficiar destes recursos escassos. Neste contexto, após uma cuidadosa reflexão ética, propomos alguns princípios a considerar aquando das decisões de alocação de recursos em saúde, baseados em valores éticos fundamentais. Idealmente, estas decisões devem ser estabelecidas e integradas nas políticas institucionais antes de um cenário de crise, de forma a antecipar uma potencial nova emergência de saúde pública e mitigar possíveis consequências trágicas com ela relacionadas.2021-06-30info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/103548http://hdl.handle.net/10316/103548https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.16142eng1646-07580870-399XSobral, MargaridaRosa, Bárbara SantaSilvestre, Margaridainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-11-19T21:34:06Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/103548Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:20:22.103893Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical Approach
Alocação de Recursos Durante a Pandemia COVID-19: Contributos para uma Abordagem Ética
title Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical Approach
spellingShingle Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical Approach
Sobral, Margarida
COVID-19
Ethics
Pandemics
Resource Allocation
SARS-CoV-2
Alocação de Recursos
COVID-19
Ética
Pandemia
SARS-CoV-2
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Resource Allocation
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Pandemics
title_short Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical Approach
title_full Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical Approach
title_fullStr Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical Approach
title_full_unstemmed Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical Approach
title_sort Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Contributions to an Ethical Approach
author Sobral, Margarida
author_facet Sobral, Margarida
Rosa, Bárbara Santa
Silvestre, Margarida
author_role author
author2 Rosa, Bárbara Santa
Silvestre, Margarida
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Sobral, Margarida
Rosa, Bárbara Santa
Silvestre, Margarida
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv COVID-19
Ethics
Pandemics
Resource Allocation
SARS-CoV-2
Alocação de Recursos
COVID-19
Ética
Pandemia
SARS-CoV-2
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Resource Allocation
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Pandemics
topic COVID-19
Ethics
Pandemics
Resource Allocation
SARS-CoV-2
Alocação de Recursos
COVID-19
Ética
Pandemia
SARS-CoV-2
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Resource Allocation
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Pandemics
description The COVID-19 pandemic has brought dramatic worldwide consequences affecting social, economic and healthcare systems. Considering that the number of infected patients requiring admission to intensive care units far exceeded the available resources, healthcare professionals have had to face challenging decisions concerning who should benefit from the limited resources and who should not. In this context, after a careful ethical reflection, we propose some principles to be adopted when dealing with allocation resource decisions, based on core ethical values. Ideally, these strategies should be established and integrated into institutional policies before a crisis scenario, in order to anticipate a potential new public health emergency and prevent possible tragic consequences.
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