title: Triage in terms of medicine and ethics.
abstract: Human beings are exposed to countless extraordinary events provoked by the nature or by themselves. When the available resources fail to satisfy the medical needs of numerous injured people and patients in such circumstances, triage application which means "selecting, sorting" is indispensable. This paper examines the medical ethics evaluation of triage and its position in Islam.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Osmangazi University Eskisehir, Turkey. elcioglu@ogu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Omur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Elcioglu
authors.forename: Ilhami
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Unluoglu
mesh_terms: D004190:Disasters; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D014218:Triage / Q000941:ethics*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification