Triage in medicine, Part I

Iserson, K. V., & Moskop, J. C. (2007). Triage in medicine, Part I: Concept, history, and types. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 49(3), 275-281.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2007

DOI

10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.05.019

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.05.019

Cited from

military_strategic_studies, operations_research

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Primes

• Authority Delegation Under Uncertainty
  • Medical Triage: Protocols delegating authority to nurses or paramedics to decide treatment pathways before patient presentation, enabling rapid response, an operating model Iserson and Moskop (2007) trace from battlefield medicine into modern emergency departments.

    This sourceTraces triage from Napoleonic battlefield medicine into modern EDs, documenting protocols that pre-delegate sorting/treatment authority to nurses and paramedics

• Prioritization
  • The structural pattern is domain-invariant: a triage nurse, a product manager, a general, and a venture capitalist each apply a value metric to ordered items and commit to addressing top ranks first—a structural recurrence Iserson and Moskop (2007) trace from Larrey's Napoleonic battlefield triage through modern emergency, military, and disaster medicine.

    This sourceReviews triage from Napoleonic battlefield medicine through modern emergency-department and disaster protocols; documents how protocols pre-delegate sorting and treatment authority to nurses and paramedics before patient presentation.

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