WHO/ICRC Technical Meeting for Global Consensus on Triage, 11-12 January 2017: Meeting Report

World Health Organization. 02/11/2018 This seven-page document summarizes a meeting co-convened in January 2017 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to discuss the current science of triage, including pre-hospital and facility-based triage during both routine operations and extraordinary/surge situations. The meeting also included a review of existing triage tools, and development of a consensus-based triage framework for both routine operations and surge situations. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - February 12, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news