We are in unprecedented times, and healthcare teams may face tremendously difficult decisions related to rationing ventilators and offering intensive care.As states and institutions consider revising existing triage plans or formulating new ones, decision-makers should be careful to avoid language that excludes patients from receiving care because of an underlying condition without carefully considering the prognosis for those individuals.It is vitally important that crisis standards of care factor in accurate, disease-specific prognostic information as patients are triaged.
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