Postmortem inquiries and trauma responses in paramedics and firefighters

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 607-622

  Regehr, Cheryl ^a   Hill, John ^b   Goldberg, Gerald ^a   Hughes, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of Toronto ^*

Author keywords

Critical incident stress; Emergency responder; Postmortem inquiry; Posttraumatic stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038507347     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260503251131     Document Type: Review

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