Australian major incident nomenclature: It may be a 'disaster' but in an 'emergency' it is just a mess

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 162-166

  Nocera, Antony ^a  

^a FRANKSTON HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disaster; Disaster planning; Health planning; Hospital planning; Multiple casualty incident

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY; HOSPITAL PLANNING; INJURY; LAW; NOMENCLATURE;

AUSTRALIA; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0035089960     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.2001.02056.x     Document Type: Article

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