Assessment of the Mass Casualty Triage During the November 2015 Paris Area Terrorist Attacks Towards a Simple Triage Rule

The authors compared triage in a pre-hospital setting during the 2015 Paris-area terrorist attack to the retrospective evaluation of an expert panel which had access to all pre-hospital and hospital files for the patients. They found that for patients classified as “absolute emergency” or “relative emergency,” there was a 36% rate of under-triage and an 8% rate of over-triage, leaving some room for improvement in pre-hospital triage.