Assessment of earthquake casualties and comparison of accuracy of five injury triage methods: evidence from a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The use of an injury triage method among earthquake injury patients can facilitate the reasonable allocation of resources, but the various existing injury triage methods need further confirmation. This study aims to assess the accuracy of several injury triage methods, namely, the Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment (START) technique; CareFlight Injury Triage (CareFlight); Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS); Triage Revised Trauma Score (T-RTS) and Triage Early Warning Score (TEWS), based on their effects on earthquake injury patients.

Design

Data in the Huaxi Earthquake Casualty Database were analysed retrospectively.

Setting

This study was conducted in China.

Participants

Data on 29 523 earthquake casualties were separately evaluated using the START

SUBMITTER: Peng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8504360 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature