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Fair allocation of medical resources prioritizes ethical principles like maximizing benefits (saving the most lives and life-years), equality, medical need (urgency and prognosis), and instrumental value (e.g., prioritizing healthcare workers). Avoid non-medical factors such as social status or first-come-first-served. In pandemics, multi-value frameworks ensure transparency and equity.Key guidelines from experts emphasize these values for scarce resources like ventilators or vaccines (Emanuel et al., NEJM: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2005114; AMA Code: https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/allocating-limited-health-care-resources).

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