The Italian guidelines’ specific recommendations include common-sense best practices such as seeking the ethical and practical opinion of other providers or senior staff when making a charged decision, encouraging all patients to make advance directives and clarify their wishes in the event of rapid deterioration—we should all do this; I now have one taped to my refrigerator—and providing absolute transparency and continual communication with patients and families, particularly when resource rationing is involved. In other words, doctors are advised to use their own judgment in allocating care and resources to those patients most likely to benefit.
Source : What ‘Distributive Justice’ Means for Doctors Treating Covid-19
