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Primary Health Care and Disasters: Applying a “Whole-of-Health System” Approach through Reverse Triage in Mass-Casualty Management

This review examined diverting non-severe mass-casualty victims to primary care using reverse triage. It found that success requires referral protocols and trained primary care staff and that integrating primary care can help prevent hospital overload during disasters.

Date published:
September 1, 2023

Evidence At A Glance

Study Type:
Study review and/or meta-analysis
Study Design:
Scoping review
Study Outcomes:
Effectiveness improvement, Feasibility
Target Population:
Clinical healthcare workers, Governmental public health workforce
Disaster Type:
Natural disaster
Intervention Target Level:
Systems level

Intervention Area:

Surge management:
  • Medical surge
Effective Intervention
Yes
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