Duty to Plan: Health Care, Crisis Standards of Care, and Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division (HMD). Published: 3/5/2020. In this discussion paper for health care planners and clinicians, the authors discuss the application of Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) principles to clinical care, including personal protective equipment, critical care, and outpatient and emergency department capacity challenges posed by the COVID-19 coronavirus or other major epidemic or pandemic event. Health care facilities should be developing tiered, proactive strategies using the best available clinical information and building on their existing surge capacity plans to optimize resource use in the event the current outbreak spreads and creates severe resource demands. (Text)
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