PC,

We use Disaster Management Systems Triage Tags. They are bar coded and can be adapted to a variety of tracking software packages. They are pretty durable and easy to use. Interestingly, I read a paper that noted that if you add chemlight sticks to the process in addition to the triage cards, that the speed of recovery is much faster (obviously for nighttime incidents).

At our hospital we are prototyping a new patient tracking system that will utilize RFID. We will see how that works. Supposedly we will also be using it to track physicians, which I'm sure will go over well (Ha!).

Greg