• Alexander Hart, Elias Nammour, Virginia Mangolds, and John Broach.
• 1Department of Emergency Medicine,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,Boston,MassachusettsUSA.
• Prehosp Disaster Med. 2018 Aug 1; 33 (4): 355-361.

AbstractIntroductionThe most commonly used methods for triage in mass-casualty incidents (MCIs) rely upon providers to take exact counts of vital signs or other patient parameters. The acuity and volume of patients which can be present during an MCI makes this a time-consuming and potentially costly process.HypothesisThis study evaluates and compares the speed of the commonly used Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment (START) triage method with that of an "intuitive triage" method which relies instead upon the abilities of an experienced first responder to determine the triage category of each victim based upon their overall first-impression assessment. The research team hypothesized that intuitive triage would be faster, without loss of accuracy in assigning triage categories.

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