A5055432887- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Ethics in medical practice
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Disaster Response and Management
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Legal and Constitutional Studies
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Poxvirus research and outbreaks
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
University of Denver
2015-2024
College of Law
2015-2024
University of Bergen
2021-2024
National Bureau of Economic Research
2022
IIT@MIT
2022
Boston College
2022
Stanford University
2010-2021
University of Groningen
2021
Science Oxford
2021
University of Oxford
2019-2021
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources for Covid-19 The pandemic has already stressed health care systems throughout the world, requiring rationing of medical equipment and care. authors ...
The Fair Priority Model offers a practical way to fulfill pledges distribute vaccines fairly and equitably
Reassuring the Public and Clinical Community About Scientific Review Approval of a COVID-19 Vaccine
Peter G. Szilagyi, MD, MPH; Kyla Thomas, PhD; Megha D. Shah, MPH, MS; Nathalie Vizueta, Yan Cui, Sitaram Vangala, Arie Kapteyn, PhD
Bioethicists influence practices and policies in medicine, science, public health. However, little is known about bioethicists' views. We recently surveyed 824 U.S. bioethicists on a wide range of ethical issues, including topics related to abortion, medical aid dying, resource allocation, among others. also asked their demographic, religious, academic, professional backgrounds. find that normative commitments predict views bioethical issues. that, important ways, do not align with those the...
A shortage of GLP-1 receptor agonists and other drugs raises questions about how limited supplies should be allocated. proposed framework could guide governments, professional societies, physicians.
This Viewpoint explains the ethical basis for implementing immunity-based licensing—certification of coronavirus immunity as a permitting public activities—and anticipates challenges to effective such system, and potential solutions.
<h3>Importance</h3> As COVID-19 vaccine distribution continues, policy makers are struggling to decide which groups should be prioritized for vaccination. <h3>Objective</h3> To assess US adults' preferences regarding prioritization. <h3>Design, Setting, and Participants</h3> This survey study involved 2 independent, online surveys of adults aged 18 years older, 1 conducted by Gallup from September 14 27, 2020, the other COVID Collaborative 19 25, 2020. Samples were weighted reflect...
Respecting Disability Rights rights advocates have filed complaints regarding crisis standards of care put forth by several U.S. states. Policymakers and hospitals can take key steps to ...
During public health crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, resource scarcity and contagion risks may require systems to shift—to some degree—from a usual clinical ethic, focused on well-being of individual patients, population health. Many triage policies exist that fall under legal protections afforded by "crisis standards care," but they have key differences. We critically appraise one most fundamental differences among policies, namely use criteria categorically exclude certain patients...
The standards for medical education in the United States now go above and beyond traditional basic science clinical subjects. Bioethics, health law, economics are recognized as important parts of translating physicians’ technical competence medicine into effective research, administration, care patients. Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which establishes certification requirements schools, requires all schools to include bioethics their curricula. Furthermore, issues such...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be the most important health law statute in American history, yet much of prominent legal scholarship examining it has focused on merits court challenges faced rather than delving into details its priority-setting provisions. In addition to providing an overview ACA's provisions concerning priority setting and their developing interpretations, this Article attempts defend three substantive propositions. First, I argue that ACA is neither uniformly hostile...
Recognising that offers of payment to research participants can serve various purposes-reimbursement, compensation and incentive-helps uncover differences between participants, which justify differential within the same study. Participants with different study-related expenses will need amounts reimbursement be restored their preparticipation financial baseline. Differential acceptable when some commit more time or assume greater burdens than others, if inter-site affect value compensation....
Proposals for allocating scarce lifesaving resources in the face of Covid-19 pandemic have aligned some ways and conflicted others. This paper attempts a kind priority setting addressing these conflicts. In first part, we identify points on which do not believe that reasonable people should differ-even if they do. These are (i) inadequacy traditional clinical ethics to address priority-setting pandemic; (ii) relevance saving lives; (iii) flaws first-come, first-served allocation; (iv)...