Ethical framework/guidelines for ICU resource allocation in Victorian hospitals during the COVID pandemic

This project involved providing Safer Care Victoria (within the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services) with an ethical framework/guidelines to assist Victorian hospitals with making ethical decisions about the allocation of ICU resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, in circumstances where those resources become scarcer than at present. SCV have indicated that the Western Health draft document Ethical Guideline for Clinical Care Decision Making during the COVID-19 Pandemic provides a helpful indication of the length and nature of the statewide ethical framework/guidelines that SCV/DHHS are requesting.