designing disaster victims' medical record, a step toward crisis management

introduction: disaster occurs almost daily in the world and increases the issue of it because of high volume of population, industrialization and acts of terrorism, my country is one of the most unexpected event areas of the world. health care systems encounter special challenges in disaster management, that they include triage and treatment a large number victims and also victims' information management. to ensure correct way of documentation of victims as introduction information management and effective triage and treatment, useful medical record are necessary, because medical record usually used for patients are too complicated and ineffective to use in case of emergency. so the objective of this research is design the disaster-victim medical record to document and triage easily for victims in disaster. methods: this research is an applied study and has been performed as descriptive study. source of information is libraries and accepted articles in indexed journals. during survey of corresponding organizations about disaster in isfahan and absence a medical record for documentation of victims, researchers identified the organizations of disaster in the world and then gathered necessary data elements for medical record in disaster. then necessary parameters for the medical record extracted from american and european models. results: according to situation and standards of iran, a proper and final pattern designed with assisting management and medical emergencies center in isfahan province. conclusion: medical record in disaster relief operations must be simple and useful; medical record used in hospitals isn't effective. the proposed model is simple and proper form for documentation of victims and easy reference for accessing clinical, administrative and statistics information in disaster.