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  • Evaluating Approaches to Im...
    Ross-Driscoll, Katherine; Esper, Gregory; Kinlaw, Kathy; Lee, Yi-Ting Hana; Morris, Alanna A; Murphy, David J; Pentz, Rebecca D; Robichaux, Chad; Vong, Gerard; Wack, Kevin; Dickert, Neal W

    American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 12/2021, Letnik: 204, Številka: 12
    Journal Article

    The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has forced healthcare systems to develop strategies to allocate critical care resources when demand outstrips supply. The pandemic has also disproportionately impacted Black patients, for whom baseline health disparities are well documented and largely driven by inequity in social determinants of health. Concerns about the potential for inequity in resource allocation were raised early in the pandemic, especially if morbidity limiting near-term survival was factored into allocation decisions. Two mitigation strategies to avoid inequity in allocation have been proposed: eliminating consideration of expected survival beyond 1 year and incorporating measures of social disadvantage such as the Area Deprivation Index (ADI). Concerns exist that allocation frameworks aimed at saving the most life-years by prioritizing individuals without preexisting conditions limiting near-term survival could exacerbate systemic disparities in health and healthcare in the United States. In this analysis of ICU patients across a healthcare system, absolute differences in allocation scores by race were small and not statistically significant.