Disaster medicine and the emergency medicine resident

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 865-870

  Kaji, Amy H ^a,c   Waeckerle, Joseph F ^b  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Box #21 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FIRE; FLOODING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW;

EID: 0037500229     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2003.10     Document Type: Review

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