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cord-032335-6c9gt7t9	Segrelles-Calvo, Gonzalo	Therapeutic limitation in elderly patients: Reflections regarding COVID19()	2020-09-19		.txt	text/plain	1309	65	52	In a recent editorial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the authors address the problem of having to choose between 2 or more patients for the assignment of resources, such as ICU admission. This real situation that arose during the Covid-19 pandemic underlines the need to develop fair resource allocation procedures that include all the stakeholders involved in patient care, and the patient and family themselves, in order to develop prioritization criteria for decisionmaking in times of adversity, without transferring this burden to a single healthcare professional in a specific situation. Among the many changes that will emerge after the Covid-19 pandemic, we believe that one of the most relevant will surely be the expansion of RICUs and the leadership of respiratory medicine in decision-making on borderline patients, such as the elderly, unifying selection criteria, clarifying the concept of frailty, and integrating its use into our clinical practice.	./cache/cord-032335-6c9gt7t9.txt	./txt/cord-032335-6c9gt7t9.txt