Inpatient triage for out-of-hospital disasters.
Due to Operation Desert Storm, St. Francis Medical Center established an inhouse triage system to make bed space rapidly available during out-of-hospital disasters. The authors discuss the use of physician bed monitors and discharge criteria and suggest the importance of hospital readiness.
Evers
M L
ML
Department of Internal Medicine, St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton, NJ 08629.
McHugh
J J
JJ
D004189:Disaster Planning; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge; D014218:Triage