Precision of in-hospital triage in mass-casualty incidents after terror attacks

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-23

  Ashkenazi, Itamar ^a   Kessel, Boris ^a   Khashan, Tawfik ^a   Haspel, Jacob ^a   Oren, Meir ^a   Olsha, Oded ^b   Alfici, Ricardo ^a  

^a HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blast injury; Bomb injuries; Mass casualty incident (MCI); Terrorism; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; ISRAEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TERRORISM; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; ISRAEL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERRORISM; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRAUMATOLOGY; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33646565690     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00003277     Document Type: Article

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