Article: Providing care for the 99.9% during the COVID-19 pandemic: How ethics, equity, epidemiology, and cost per QALY inform healthcare policy.
2020 Volume 33, Issue 5, Page(s) 239–242
Abstract: Managing healthcare in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) era should be guided by ethics, epidemiology, equity, and economics, not emotion. Ethical healthcare policies ensure equitable access to care for patients regardless of whether they have ... ...
Abstract | Managing healthcare in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) era should be guided by ethics, epidemiology, equity, and economics, not emotion. Ethical healthcare policies ensure equitable access to care for patients regardless of whether they have COVID-19 or another disease. Because healthcare resources are limited, a cost per Quality Life Year (QALY) approach to COVID-19 policy should also be considered. Policies that focus solely on mitigating COVID-19 are likely to be ethically or financially unsustainable. A cost/QALY approach could target resources to optimally improve QALYs. For example, most COVID-19 deaths occur in long-term care facilities, and this problem is likely better addressed by a focused long-term care reform than by a society-wide non-pharmacological intervention. Likewise, ramping up elective, non-COVID-19 care in low prevalence regions while expanding testing and case tracking in hot spots could reduce excess mortality from non-COVID-19 diseases and decrease adverse financial impacts while controlling the epidemic. Globally, only ∼0.1% of people have had a COVID-19 infection. Thus, ethical healthcare policy must address the needs of the 99.9%. |
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MeSH term(s) | Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology ; Coronavirus Infections/therapy ; Delivery of Health Care/economics ; Delivery of Health Care/ethics ; Health Equity/economics ; Health Equity/ethics ; Health Policy/economics ; Humans ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology ; Pneumonia, Viral/therapy ; Quality-Adjusted Life Years ; SARS-CoV-2 |
Keywords | covid19 |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2020-07-08 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 2140831-2 |
ISSN | 2352-3883 ; 0840-4704 |
ISSN (online) | 2352-3883 |
ISSN | 0840-4704 |
DOI | 10.1177/0840470420939854 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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