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Australia's lack of clear triage protocols more than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic means clinicians will struggle to decide which patients to save and how to treat them should the virus return, an analysis published in the Medical Journal of Australia has found.
Because Australia has avoided the scale of pandemic that has overwhelmed health systems elsewhere, federal and state governments have been reluctant to develop or make public triage protocols, the analysis, led by Dr Eliana Close from Queensland University of Technology's Australian centre for health law research, said.
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