Blog. Consent in the time of COVID-19
Turnham, Helen ; Dunn, Michael ; Thornburn, Guy ; Hill, Elaine ; Wilkinson, Dominic
23/04/2020
1 p.
epidemic disease ; medical surveillance ; ethics
Social sciences
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/04/23/consent-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
English
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, one widely discussed issue has been the diversion of medical systems to support patients with acute COVID-19 disease. This diversion inevitably reduces availability of routine and urgent treatments for non-COVID-related illness. Patients with acute surgical emergencies such as appendicitis still present for care, cancers continue to be discovered in patients, who require urgent management. Health systems are focused on making sure that these urgent needs are met. However, to achieve this goal, many patients are offered treatments that deviate from standard, non- pandemic management."
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