When the US healthcare system is overwhelmed by disaster, Crisis Standards of Care guide the triage teams forced to choose which patients receive scarce life support treatments in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). There is an active bioethical debate about what ethical principles should be used to construct these protocols. Dr. Parker’s project will seek to develop and use a sophisticated simulation model of ICU crisis scenarios to evaluate the bioethical consequences of the currently published Crisis Standards of Care and test novel equity-promoting alternatives.
Our Grants
Simulating Crisis Standards of Care and Developing an Equitable Life Support Allocation Protocol
William Parker, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
Grant Type
Making a Difference
Grant Cycle
fall 2022
Duration
24 months
Amount
$238,878
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Stratton B. Tolmie et al., Association of the 2018 U.S. Heart Allocation Policy Change and the Survival Benefit of Heart Transplantation, JACC Heart Failure, Jul 2025
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Kevin A. Lazenby et al., Development of a risk score predicting survival after adult heart transplantation in the United States, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Jul 2025
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Michael Hermsen et al., Age and Saving Lives in Crisis Standards of Care: A Multicenter Cohort Study of Triage Score Prognostic Accuracy, Critical Care Explorations, May 2025
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Juan C. Rojas et al., A common longitudinal intensive care unit data format (CLIF) for critical illness research, Intensive Care Medicine, Mar 2025
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Grace R. Lyden et al., Best practices for statistical analysis of pretransplant medical urgency, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Nov 2023
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