Field triage: Opportunities to save lives

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 282-283

  Hunt, Richard C ^a   Jurkovich, Gregory J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 33745712453     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120600721461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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