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. 2020 Jul;20(7):67-74.
doi: 10.1080/15265161.2020.1764137. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

Ethics Lessons From Seattle's Early Experience With COVID-19

Denise M Dudzinski  1 , Benjamin Y Hoisington  2 , Crystal E Brown  2
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Ethics Lessons From Seattle's Early Experience With COVID-19

Denise M Dudzinski et al. Am J Bioeth. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

Ethics consultants and critical care clinicians reflect on Seattle's early experience as the United States' first epicenter of COVID-19. We discuss ethically salient issues confronted at UW Medicine's hospitals and provide lessons for other health care institutions that may soon face what we have faced.

Keywords: COVID-19; Ethics; SARS-CoV-2; distributive justice; equity; rationing.

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