Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 3 , Pages 424-430.e1, September 2009

Does START Triage Work? An Outcomes Assessment After a Disaster

Presented as an oral abstract at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2007.

  • Christopher A. Kahn, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Christopher A. Kahn, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine, 101 The City Drive, South, Route 128-01, Orange, CA 92868; 714-456-5239, fax 714-456-5390
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  • Carl H. Schultz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA
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  • Ken T. Miller, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA
    • Orange County Fire Authority, Irvine, CA
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  • Craig L. Anderson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA

Received 21 September 2008; received in revised form 5 December 2008; accepted 19 December 2008. published online 06 February 2009.

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 Supervising editor: Jonathan L. Burstein, MD

 Author contributions: CAK and CHS conceived the study and designed the trial. CAK obtained research funding. CAK and CHS supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. CAK, CHS, and KTM undertook recruitment of participating centers and collected data. CAK, CHS, and CLA managed the data, including quality control. CLA provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data, with assistance from CAK and CHS. CAK drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. CAK and CHS take responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. This article was supported by an F32 fellowship training grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, awarded to Christopher Kahn, #HS-15768.

 Publication date: Available online February 5, 2009.

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PII: S0196-0644(09)00002-X

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.12.035

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