Health
Individuals with intellectual disabilities faced triage biases during COVID-19 pandemic – News-Medical.Net
When COVID-19 patients began filling up ICUs throughout the country in 2020, health care providers faced difficult decisions. Health care workers had to decide…
When COVID-19 patients began filling up ICUs throughout the country in 2020, health care providers faced difficult decisions. Health care workers had to decide which patients were most likely to recover with care and which were not so resources could be prioritized.
But a new paper from the University of Georgia suggests that unconscious biases in the health care system may have influenced how individuals with intellectual disabilities were categorized in emergency triage protocols.
The state-level…
-
Noosa News18 hours agoWoman was watching keepers work when lion attacked, Darling Downs Zoo says
-
Noosa News17 hours agoWorking for someone else made it hard to care for my daughter. So I quit
-
General21 hours agoDeveloper warns wind energy capacity may not be ready by WA coal deadline
-
General14 hours agoQantas ‘contacted by potential cybercriminal’ after attack on data of up to 6 million customers