Polarized Citizen Preferences for the Ethical Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in 20 Countries

Overview

Journal MDM Policy Pract

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2022 Aug 1

PMID 35911175

Authors

Edmond Awad

Bence Bago

Jean-Francois Bonnefon

Nicholas A Christakis

Iyad Rahwan

Azim Shariff

Affiliations

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Abstract

Highlights: We collected citizen preferences regarding triage decisions about scarce medical resources from 20 countries.We find that citizen preferences are universally polarized.Citizens either prefer no triage (random allocation or first-come-first served) or extensive triage using all common triage metrics, with "prognosis" being the least controversial.Experts will need to prepare strong arguments to preserve or elicit public trust in triage decisions.

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