When Scarcity Meets Disparity: "Resources Allocation and COVID-19 Patients with Diabetes".
J Diabetes Sci Technol
; 15(5): 1005-1009, 2021 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1085175
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic raised distinct challenges in the field of scarce resource allocation, a long-standing area of inquiry in the field of bioethics. Policymakers and states developed crisis guidelines for ventilator triage that incorporated such factors as immediate prognosis, long-term life expectancy, and current stage of life. Often these depend upon existing risk factors for severe illness, including diabetes. However, these algorithms generally failed to account for the underlying structural biases, including systematic racism and economic disparity, that rendered some patients more vulnerable to these conditions. This paper discusses this unique ethical challenge in resource allocation through the lens of care for patients with severe COVID-19 and diabetes.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Resource Allocation
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Diabetes Complications
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Diabetes Mellitus
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Systematic review/Meta Analysis
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
J Diabetes Sci Technol
Journal subject:
Endocrinology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
1932296821991112
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