Design, Validity, and Reliability of a Pediatric Resident JumpSTART Disaster Triage Scoring Instrument

• 2013

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• Mark Cicero; Antonio Riera; Veronika Northrup; Marc Auerbach; Kevin Pearson; Carl Baum
PMID: 23153602DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2012.09.002

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This article is about a tool called the Pediatric Resident JumpSTART Disaster Triage Scoring Instrument. It describes how this tool was designed to help doctors and nurses quickly decide which children need urgent care during disasters. The study checks if the tool is valid, meaning it works well, and reliable, meaning it gives consistent results each time it's used. The goal is to make sure that in emergencies, kids get the right help as fast as possible. This helps save lives by making sure medical teams can work efficiently when there are many injured people needing care.

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Focus Areas: Everyday Emergency; Trauma

Audiences: Emergency Managers; Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Bundles: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Clinical Competence; Disaster Planning; Education, Medical, Graduate; Internship and Residency; Pediatrics; Reproducibility of Results; Triage; Disaster Medicine

Institutions: Yale University

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