Guidelines for non-medical care providers to manage the first steps of emergency triage of elderly evacuees

Geriatrics and Gerontology International

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 383-394

  Takahashi, Takashi ^a   Iijima, Katsuya ^b   Kuzuya, Masafumi ^c   Hattori, Hideyuki ^d   Yokono, Koichi ^e   Morimoto, Shigeto ^f  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Elderly evacuee; Emergency triage; Guidelines; Non medical care provider

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INFECTION; JAPAN; MENTAL STRESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RELIEF WORK; TRIAGE; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 80053279516     PISSN: 14441586     EISSN: 14470594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2011.00756.x     Document Type: Article

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