Open AccessLaypersons’ Priority-Setting Preferences for Allocating a COVID-19 Patient to a Ventilator: Does a Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease Matter?
Author(s) -
Perla Werner,
Ruth Landau
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s283015
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , disease , pandemic , quarter (canadian coin) , cognition , cross sectional study , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , archaeology , outbreak , history
The current study aimed 1) to assess laypersons' priority-setting preferences for allocating ventilators to COVID-19 patients with and without AD while differentiating between a young and an old person with the disease, and 2) to examine the factors associated with these preferences.