Decision Model for Allocation of Intensive Care Unit Beds for Suspected COVID-19 Patients under Scarce Resources

Table 1

Previous studies about ICU allocation problem.

Theme	Authors	Contribution
Perceptions and attitudes of health professionals	Giannini and Consonni [18]	Perceptions about inappropriate admissions and resource allocation
	Coomber et al. [19]	Occupational stress of ICU doctors
Techniques or models to support the ICU allocation problem (or similar issues)	Azcarate et al. [23]	Proposition of a framework
	He et al. [20]	Systematic literature review of research design and modeling techniques
	Reiz et al. [21]	Use of big data and machine learning
	Edenharter et al.[17]	Use of logistic regression model
	Cao and Huang [27]	Use of discrete event simulation model
	Shmueli and Sprung [22]	Application about survival benefits of allocating a patient to an ICU
	Almeida et al. [15]	Model to maximize the expected number of lives of patients in a Pediatric ICU
Ethical issues	McGuire and McConnell [25]	Discuss fairness and ethics in the ICU allocation problem
	Ghanbari et al. [29]	Systematic literature review about ethical issues involved in allocating resources
	Oerlemans et al. [24]	Interviews with health professionals concerning ethical problems
	White et al. [26]	Used ethical principles to improve allocation decisions