Health care workers' willingness to work in a pandemic

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 21-23

  Vawter, Dorothy E ^a   Garrett, J Eline ^a   Prehn, Angela W ^a   Gervais, Karen G ^a  

^a Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MORALITY; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 52149115569     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265160802318204     Document Type: Note

References (7)

1. Devereaux, A. V., Dichter, J. R., Christian, M. D., et al. 2008. Definitive care for the critically ill during a disaster: A frame-work for allocation of scarce resources in mass critical care: from a task force for mass critical care summit meeting. Chest 133: S51-S66.
2. Dwyer, J., and Tsai, D. F. 2008. Developing the duty to treat: HIV, SARS, and the next epidemic. Journal of Medical Ethics 34(1): 7-10.
3. Malm, H., May, T., Francis, L. P., Omer, S. B., Salmon, D. A., and Hood, R. 2008. Ethics, pandemics, and the duty to treat. American Journal of Bioethics 8(8): 4-19.
4. New York State Workgroup on Ventilator Allocation in an Influenza Pandemic. 2007. Allocation of Ventilators in an Influenza Pandemic: Planning Document. Draft. Available at: http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseases/ communicable/influenza/pandemic/ventilators/docs/ventilator-guidance. pdf(accessed July 20, 2008).
5. Selgelid, M. J., and Chen, Y-C. 2008. Specifying the duty to treat. American Journal of Bioethics 8(8): 26-28.
6. Vawter, D. E., Garrett, J. E., Prehn, A. W., et al. 2008. For the good of us all: Ethically rationing health resources in Minnesota in a severe influenza pandemic. Preliminary report. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics and University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics.
7. Vawter, D. E., Gervais, K. G., and Garrett, J. E. 2007. Allocating pandemic influenza vaccines in Minnesota: recommendations of the pandemic influenza ethics work group. Vaccine 25(35): 6522-6536.