Public Health

Research on public health described by scientists at University of California

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 10th, 2009

"A public health emergency, such as an influenza pandemic, will lead to shortages of mechanical ventilators, critical care beds, and other potentially life-saving treatments. Difficult decisions about who will and will not receive these scarce resources will have to be made," scientists writing in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine report.

"Existing recommendations reflect a narrow utilitarian perspective, in which allocation decisions are based primarily on patients' chances of survival to hospital discharge. Certain patient groups, such as the elderly and those with functional impairment, are denied access to potentially life-saving treatments on the basis...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2009-03-10)

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