id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-048335-5fl0rk90 Thompson, Alison K Pandemic influenza preparedness: an ethical framework to guide decision-making 2006-12-04 .txt text/plain 7950 380 45 The incorporation of ethics into pandemic planning can be helped by senior hospital administrators sponsoring its use, by having stakeholders vet the framework, and by designing or identifying decision review processes. The incorporation of ethics into pandemic planning can be helped by senior hospital administrators sponsoring its use, by having stakeholders vet the framework, and by designing or identifying decision review processes. The significance of this ethical framework is a) in the unique collaborative approach taken to its development that involved ethicists with different areas of expertise and a variety of health care stakeholders, and b) that it fills an important need in pandemic planning for an ethical framework to guide decision-making that has been unmet in most pandemic planning processes world wide. The second part of the framework identifies ten key ethical values that should inform the pandemic influenza planning process and decision-making during an outbreak. ./cache/cord-048335-5fl0rk90.txt ./txt/cord-048335-5fl0rk90.txt