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AMA Code offers guide on COVID-19 crisis standards of care

Decisions about rationing life-saving treatment should not be made ad hoc. The AMA Code of Medical Ethics offers time-tested, principled advice.

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AMA Code of Medical Ethics: Guidance in a pandemic

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics offers foundational guidance for health care professionals and institutions responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Pandemic serves up new questions of medical right and wrong

Learn with the AMA’s top experts about the medical ethics issues emerging amid the COVID-19 global pandemic and how physicians can navigate them.

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Protecting public health & vulnerable populations in a pandemic

AMA provides guidance on the responsibility physicians have to advocacy and protect vulnerable patients and populations during a pandemic.

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Providing patient care remotely in a pandemic

​​​​​​​Principle IX of the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics provides that physicians should “[s]upport access to care for all people.”

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Fair access to limited critical care resources

Physicians’ dual obligations to serve both the well-being of their individual patients and that of other patients and the community at large come into sharp tension in a pandemic.

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Restrictive covenants and patient care in a pandemic

Guidance based on the AMA Code of Medical Ethics advises on whether physicians can provide care outside of a non-compete agreement or restrictive covenant during a pandemic.

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Speaking out on issues adversely affecting patient safety in a pandemic

Physicians have an ethical obligation to address conditions that adversely affect quality patient care. View the AMA guidance about speaking out on issues that affect patients during a pandemic.

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Access and health equity during a pandemic

The AMA provides guidance based on the AMA Code of Medical Ethics for physicians to support fair access to care for patients, particularly during a pandemic.

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