Age-based triage and human rights
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F48546054%3A_____%2F23%3AN0000031" target="_blank" >RIV/48546054:_____/23:N0000031 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/09240519231151943" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/09240519231151943</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09240519231151943" target="_blank" >10.1177/09240519231151943</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Age-based triage and human rights
Original language description
The article provides the first comprehensive assessment of age-based triage from the perspective of human rights. Triage, that is the sorting of patients into categories of priority of treatment, has been known for decades. It has however got larger prominence during the Covid-19 crisis. The crisis has exposed healthcare systems in many countries to a critical shortage of resources, forcing them to consider resorting to triage. The absence of legal rules has been compensated by non-binding triage guidelines, adopted by professional medical and ethical associations. This article analyses 11 guidelines, showing that none of them is truly age neutral. Some use allocation criteria that entail disparate treatment of older persons, consisting of their de-prioritization or exclusion from access to life-saving treatment on account of their age. Others rely on allocation criteria whose application has disparate effects on older persons. The article argues that whereas the latter approach could be compatible with human rights standards, the former entails violations of the principle of non-discrimination and of several other human rights (the right to life, the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment, the right to private life, and the right to health).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-08130S" target="_blank" >GA18-08130S: Human Rights of Older Persons</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
ISSN
0924-0519
e-ISSN
2214-7357
Volume of the periodical
41
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
13-34
UT code for WoS article
000953092500002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85150605604