Using the model of resource and time-based triage (MORTT) to guide scarce resource allocation in the aftermath of a nuclear detonation

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Casagrande, Rocco ^a   Wills, Nick ^a   Kramer, Elizabeth ^a   Sumner, Louise ^a   Mussante, Mark ^a   Kurinsky, Rachel ^a   McGhee, Patrick ^a   Katz, Luba ^b   Weinstock, David M ^c   Coleman, C Norman ^d  

^a Gryphon Scientific   (United States)

^b ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Combined injury; Improvised nuclear device; Modeling; Nuclear detonation; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL; TERRORISM; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL; TERRORISM; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79953017159     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2011.16     Document Type: Article

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