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Rethinking Mass-Casualty Triage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2023

Derrick Tin Open the ORCID record for Derrick Tin [Opens in a new window] ,
Fredrik Granholm Open the ORCID record for Fredrik Granholm [Opens in a new window] ,
Ryan Hata  and
Gregory Ciottone
Derrick Tin*
Affiliation:
Faculty, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA; Associate Professor Critical Care Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Fredrik Granholm
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine and EMS, Sundsvall County Hospital, Sundsvall, Sweden
Ryan Hata
Affiliation:
Fellow, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Gregory Ciottone
Affiliation:
Director, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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Correspondence: Derrick Tin, Faculty, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts USA, Associate Professor Critical Care Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. E-mail: [email protected]
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disaster triagemass-casualty incidentstriage tools
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , June 2023 , pp. 424 - 425
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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