Salud pública de México
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Salud pública de México · Dec 2020
Observational StudyA Risk Score to Predict Admission to the Intensive Care Unit in Patients with COVID-19: the ABC-GOALS score.
To develop a score to predict the need for ICU admission in COVID-19. ⋯ ABC-GOALS is a tool to timely predict the need for admission to ICU in COVID-19.
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Salud pública de México · Sep 2020
[Bioethics guide on scarce medical resource allocation in Mexico].
The bioethical inquiry about allocating fairly scarce health resources is not new, all countries around the world that were seriously afflicted by SARS-CoV-2 have issued triage guidelines in order to address the dilemmas raised by the pandemic. There is no question about the need to create bioethical guidelines, since its creation provides a degree of certainty that fair and ethical decisions are taken. This also prevents that decisions are made in solitary and maybe motivated by corrupted actions. ⋯ This guide has at its core that principle of utmost importance in social justice which main thesis is: "All lives have the same value". The aim of this contribution is to provide the ethical and legal principles established in the aforementioned bioethi-cal guideline. In sum, a brief exploration of the ethical reasons that support a specific way to allocate scarce health resources is provided, as well as the foundations of the procedural part from a human rights-based approach.