TY - BOOK ID - 137366418 TI - Health Care Resource Allocation Decisionmaking During a Pandemic AU - Frank, Lori AU - Concannon, Thomas W. AU - Patel, Karishma V. PY - 2020 PB - Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137366418 AB - In the COVID-19 pandemic, many health system and state policymakers are working with no established methods for making decisions about allocation of scarce but lifesaving health care resources for patients and personal protective equipment for health care and long-term care workers. In many settings, decisions are being made ad hoc, with limited information and no input from patients and families, and criteria for allocation of scarce medical resources are not settled. Recognizing that these challenges threaten the quality of health care resource allocation decisions, the authors created a rapid response guidance checklist to support health care resource allocation decisionmaking during the COVID-19 crisis. The Core Guidance Checklist was created from a consensus discussion process with bioethicists, health system leaders, clinicians, patient advocates, and representatives of affected communities. It is intended for use by decisionmakers within health systems, as well as state-level policymakers, to strengthen resource allocation policy development and implementation and improve the decisions that result. The Core Guidance Checklist can be used to guide evaluation of allocation guidance policy, both the content and the consequent decisionmaking, to spur improvements and to increase public trust. ER -