Medical Liability for Allocation of Scarce Healthcare Resources in the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Italian scenario

Massimo Foglia

doi:10.2478/wrlae-2022-0002

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Medical Liability for Allocation of Scarce Healthcare Resources in the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Italian scenario

Wroclaw Review of Law, Administration & Economics

Volume 12 (2022): Issue 1 (December 2022)

By: Massimo Foglia

Open Access

|May 2023

Abstract

Summary

1. Tragic Choices in COVID times; 2. Criteria for the Allocation of Scarce Healthcare Resources; 3. Liability of Healthcare Professionals and Institutions; 4. Possible solutions?

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Articles in this issue

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/wrlae-2022-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2084-1264

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Language: English

Page range: 21 - 29

Published on: May 2, 2023

Published by: University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

Medical liability,

covid-19,

resource allocation

Related subjects:

Law,

Public law,

Public law, other

© 2023 Massimo Foglia, published by University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 12 (2022): Issue 1 (December 2022)