It’s Time for Canada to Follow Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Protocol

Authors

Cal DeWolfe, Dalhousie Health Law Institute
Jocelyn Downie, Dalhousie University Schulich School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

Keywords

Critical Care, Triage Protocol, Ontario, Quebec, COVID-19, Canada, Healthcare Policy

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced health-care policy-makers across the world to face the same gut-wrenching question: if critical care wards become overcrowded, to whom do we give potentially life-saving resources and whom do we deny?

Recommended Citation

Cal DeWolfe & Jocelyn Downie, "It’s Time for Canada to Follow Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Protocol" (12 August 2020), online: Policy Options < policyoptions.irpp.org > [perma.cc/3ZXM-LM66].