Does START Triage Work? An Outcomes Assessment After a Disaster

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Kahn, Christopher A ^a   Schultz, Carl H ^a   Miller, Ken T ^a,b   Anderson, Craig L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Orange County Fire Authority   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISASTERS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RAILROADS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRIAGE;

EID: 68649102977     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.12.035     Document Type: Article

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