Triage and treatment tools for use in a scarce resources-crisis standards of care setting after a nuclear detonation

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Coleman, C Norman ^a,g   Weinstock, David M ^b   Casagrande, Rocco ^c   Hick, John L ^d   Bader, Judith L ^a   Chang, Florence ^e   Nemhauser, Jeffrey B ^f   Knebel, Ann R ^a  

^a US Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Gryphon Scientific ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis standards of care; Nuclear detonation; Scarce resources; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CITY; COMORBIDITY; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIATION INJURY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TERRORISM; URBAN POPULATION;

CITIES; COMORBIDITY; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STANDARD OF CARE; TERRORISM; TRIAGE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79953015731     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2011.22     Document Type: Article

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