Practical resources
Ethical frameworks and toolkits:
An ethical framework for decision-making about staff safety: balancing health professional wellbeing and duty to care
Health professionals are exposed to risks of various kinds when doing their jobs. In usual times, clinicians have the information and resources they need to appropriately protect themselves while still providing optimal care for patients.
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Planning for and managing COVID-19: Ethical decision-making tool
Basing decisions on clearly defined and well-established values helps with difficult choices in a crisis. This tool takes an ethical framework (Thompson et al 2006), and guides decision-makers through a structured process to support ethical decision-making.
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