Disaster Med Public Health Prep
November 2021
Objective: The California Emergency Medical Services Authority manages and deploys California Medical Assistance Teams (CAL-MAT) to disaster medical incidents in the state. This analysis reviews diagnoses for ambulatory medical visits at multiple wildland fire incident base camp field sites in California during the 2020 fire season.
Methods: Clinical data without personal health information were extracted retrospectively from patient care records from all patients seen by a provider.