Designing and executing a functional exercise to test a novel informatics tool for mass casualty triage.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The testing of informatics tools designed for use during mass casualty incidents presents a unique problem as there is no readily available population of victims or identical exposure setting. The purpose of this article is to describe the process of designing, planning, and executing a functional exercise to accomplish the research objective of validating an informatics tool specifically designed to identify and triage victims of irritant gas syndrome agents.

Materials and methods

During a 3-year time frame, the research team and partners developed the Emergency Department Informatics Computational Tool and planned a functional exercise to test it using medical records data from 298 patients seen in 1 emergency department following a chlorine gas exposure in 2005.

SUBMITTER: Donevant SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6748810 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature