It’s Time for Canada to Follow Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Protocol

Jocelyn Downie; Cal DeWolfe

It’s Time for Canada to Follow Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Protocol

Dalhousie Health Law Institute

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced health-care policy-makers across the world to face the same gut-wrenching question: if critical care wards become overcrowded, to whom do we give potentially life-saving resources and whom do we deny?

Original language	Canadian English
Publication status	Published - Jan. 1 2020

Keywords

Critical Care
Triage Protocol
Ontario
Quebec
COVID-19
Canada
Healthcare Policy

Disciplines

Health Law and Policy
Law
Law and Society
Medical Jurisprudence

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It’s Time for Canada to Follow Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Protocol

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