Triage Criteria: Medically, Ethically or Socially Defined?

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Frailty Triage: Is Rationing Intensive Medical Treatment on the Grounds of Frailty Ethical?

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Dementia, Frailty and Triage in a Pandemic

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Notes

1 The report mentions a CFS as low as 4 (paired with other criteria) as an ‘objective’ score of serious enough condition for a Covid patient in respiratory distress to be denied ICU admission (Draft RPMO).

2 That scale (from 1 to 6) is used to assess mental and physical state of an elderly person and the level of demonstrated autonomy she has. It had previously been used for the allocation of benefits to older people.