Preliminary Recommendations

The preliminary recommendations are found in two reports. Click on the links below to go to the page for each report:

For the Good of Us All: Ethically Rationing Health Resources in Minnesota in a Severe Influenza Pandemic: Preliminary Report January 30, 2009

• This report contains rationing frameworks that are unique to each of these resources: antiviral medications, N95 respirators, surgical masks, pandemic vaccines and mechanical ventilators. Most frameworks include one set of guidelines for prioritizing different groups in the general public and another set for prioritizing key workers. The report also has background information about pandemic influenza, the project team’s process, assumptions made for this project and next steps.
• The report includes an executive summary and a detailed table of contents to help you find the sections that interest you.
• There are some questions that arose frequently in the discussions leading up to the preliminary recommendations. Click here to read about these questions and consider responding to them in your comments. 

Implementing Ethical Frameworks for Rationing Scarce Health Resources in Minnesota during Severe Influenza Pandemic: Preliminary Report January 30, 2009 

• This report offers recommendations that address issues about the practical application of ethical frameworks for rationing in an influenza pandemic. While such ethical frameworks for rationing play a critically important role in pandemic planning and response, important questions nonetheless remain about how their moral guidance can be practically implemented in the enormously complex context of actual pandemic planning and response. These recommendations concern broad practical issues that span the ethical frameworks.
• The report includes an executive summary and a detailed table of contents to help you find the sections that interest you.
• There are some questions that arose frequently in the discussions leading up to the preliminary recommendations. Click here to read about these questions and consider responding to them in your comments.