Barriers to pediatric disaster triage: A qualitative investigation

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 279-286

  Koziel, Jeannette R ^a   Meckler, Garth ^b   Brown, Linda ^c   Acker, David ^a   Torino, Michael ^a   Walsh, Barbara ^d   Cicero, Mark X ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum development; Disasters; Simulation; Triage

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; DISASTER; DISASTER MEDICINE; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS DISASTER; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PEDIATRICS; PROCEDURES; RESCUE PERSONNEL;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CURRICULUM; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; PEDIATRICS; TRIAGE;

EID: 84961290761     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2014.967428     Document Type: Article

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