Arizona’s Crisis Standards of Care and Fair Allocation of Resources During COVID-19
Document Type
Article
Year
2020
Citation Information
Govind Persad, Arizona’s Crisis Standards of Care and Fair Allocation of Resources During COVID-19, (2020), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/2013.
Abstract
As COVID-19 cases spiked in Arizona, the state activated its crisis standards of care, which provide triage guidelines if absolute scarcity arises.
Arizona has done the right thing by adopting crisis standards of care instead of leaving these decisions about ventilators to be made ad hoc by medical staff, which presents the risk both of arbitrary and biased decisions and of greater distress for clinical staff who are forced to make decisions without a guidance framework.
As COVID-19 cases spiked in Arizona, the state activated its crisis standards of care, which provide triage guidelines if absolute scarcity arises.
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/="/">Arizona has done the right thing by adopting crisis standards of care instead of leaving these decisions about ventilators to be made ad hoc by medical staff, which presents the risk both of arbitrary and biased decisions and of greater distress for clinical staff who are forced to make decisions without a guidance framework.