The Need for Explicit Guidelines for Implicit Rationing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mon, August 31, 2020

In a recent American Journal of Bioethics, several of CBSSM faculty and others argue that bioethics has focused its expertise too narrowly on ventilator allocation, to the detriment of other scarce COVID resources.

Flattening the Rationing Curve: The Need for Explicit Guidelines for Implicit Rationing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Faculty:

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBioethics

Janice Firn, PhD, MSW, HEC-C

Naomi Laventhal, MD, MA

Lauren Smith, MD

Christian Vercler, MD, MA, HEC-C

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil

Andrew Shuman, MD, FACS, HEC-C

Norman D. Hogikyan, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Research Topics:

Healthcare rationing