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Allocating Scarce Resources in Disasters: Emergency Department Principles

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This article reviews key concepts from the disaster literature, providing the emergency physician with a framework of ethical and operational principles on which medical interventions provided may be adjusted according to demand and the resources available.
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This article is published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.The article was published on 2012-03-01. It has received 154 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Triage & Preparedness.

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Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response

TL;DR: Crisis Standards of Care provides a framework for a systems approach to the development and implementation of CSC plans, and addresses the legal issues and the ethical, palliative care, and mental health issues that agencies and organizations at each level of a disaster response should address.
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Ethical Guidance for Disaster Response, Specifically Around Crisis Standards of Care: A Systematic Review

TL;DR: This systematic review identifies the most oft-used and -discussed ethical concepts and principles used in disaster planning around CSCs, including duty to care, utilitarianism, and a number of others.
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Surge Capacity Principles: Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters: CHEST Consensus Statement

TL;DR: The suggestions in this article are important for all who are involved in large-scale disasters or pandemics with injured or critically ill multiple patients, including front-line clinicians, hospital administrators, and public health or government officials.
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Creating a Palliative Care Inpatient Response Plan for COVID-19-The UW Medicine Experience.

TL;DR: A multifaceted strategy to implement high-quality palliative care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that incorporates conventional, contingency, and crisis capacity and focuses on the areas of the hospital caring for the most patients: the emergency department, intensive care units, and acute care services is shared.
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Virtual reality and live simulation: a comparison between two simulation tools for assessing mass casualty triage skills.

TL;DR: Virtual reality simulation proved to be a valuable tool, equivalent to live simulation, to test medical students’ abilities to perform mass casualty triage and to detect improvement in such skills after a teaching session.
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The genealogy of lean production

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the evolution of the research at the MIT International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) that led to the conception of the term "lean production" and investigate why the program was so influential in promoting the lean production concept.
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Habits as knowledge structures: Automaticity in goal-directed behavior

TL;DR: In this article, the idea of habits as a form of goal-directed automatic behavior was tested and confirmed that, when behavior is habitual, behavioral responses are activated automatically, and the results of three experiments indicated that the automaticity in habits is conditional on the presence of an active goal.
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Guidelines for field triage of injured patients recommendations of the national expert panel on field triage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the dissemination and impact of the 2006 Guidelines for field triage of injured patients; outlines the methodology used by the Panel for its 2011 review; explains the revisions and modifications to the physiologic, anatomic, mechanism-of-injury, and special considerations criteria; and provides the rationale used by Panel for these changes.
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Intergenerational equity: an exploration of the 'fair innings' argument

TL;DR: The analysis suggests that the notion of a 'fair innings' notion of intergenerational equity requires greater discrimination against the elderly than would be dictated simply by efficiency objectives.
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