- Age and probability of survival - These two characteristics have always been two determinants in deciding who to treat first.
- Gender, socioeconomic status, nationality, and criminal records - They were included because it was found that they have an impact on moral decisions in other contexts.
- Number of people and family members who have been infected - These qualities are used to highlight the infectious nature of the virus.
- Expected number of days that a patient needs to be put on a ventilator and costs that public finance - Policy makers are concerned with these factors because they represent the costs of a decision.

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The aim of the study was to see how important patient characteristics were for someone when making a decision on who gets the ventilator. In other words, it looks at how social preferences affected allocation decisions. The study selected 10 characteristics:
- Age
- Gender 
- Socioeconomic status
- Criminal records, 
- Probability of survival after treatment
- Number of people the patient has infected
- Family members who have been infected
- Expected number of days that this patient needs to be put on a ventilator
- Costs paid by public finance
- Nationality


Who Gets the Ventilator? Study Purpose

Jin, L., Huang, Y., Liang, Y., & Zhang, Q. (2020). Who Gets the Ventilator? Moral Decision Making Regarding Medical Resource Allocation in a Pandemic. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. doi:10.1086/711734

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