Open AccessValidation of a Crisis Standards of Care Model for Prioritization of Limited Resources During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis in an Urban, Safety-Net, Academic Medical Center*
Author(s) -
Albert H. Nadjarian,
Jessica LeClair,
Taylor F. Mahoney,
Eric H. Awtry,
Jasvinder S. Bhatia,
Lisa B. Caruso,
Alexis Clay,
David M. Greer,
Karan Hingorani,
Laila Horta,
Michel A. Ibrahim,
Michael H. Ieong,
Thea James,
Matthew H. Kulke,
Remington Lim,
Robert Lowe,
James M. Moses,
Jaime Murphy,
Ala Nozari,
Aneesh Patel,
Brent Silver,
Arthur C. Theodore,
Ryan Shufei Wang,
Ellen M. Weinstein,
Stephen Wilson,
Anna M. CervantesArslanian
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005155
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , triage , mortality rate , population , intensive care medicine , renal replacement therapy , palliative care , emergency medicine , health care , severity of illness , environmental health , nursing , economics , economic growth
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare resources even in wealthy nations, necessitating rationing of limited resources without previously established crisis standards of care protocols. In Massachusetts, triage guidelines were designed based on acute illness and chronic life-limiting conditions. In this study, we sought to retrospectively validate this protocol to cohorts of critically ill patients from our hospital.