Toward a national standard in primary mass casualty triage

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 2, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages

  Armstrong, John H ^a   Frykberg, Erik R ^b   Burris, David G ^c  

^a Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55949111144     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 193844X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e31818582a5     Document Type: Editorial

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