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Abstract: The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) worked with public health, emergency management, first responders, healthcare, legal, and other partners to create this Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) Plan for the State of Arizona. This collaborative, multi-year project included strategic planning sessions, interagency workgroups, and a public engagement campaign. Ethical considerations and principles have played a key role throughout the course of this initiative. Stewardship of resources, duty to care, equity, reciprocity, proportionality, transparency, and accountability are the guiding ethical elements of this plan. This ethical foundation has been integrated into public health and emergency response principles to establish this common framework for statewide CSC.
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