Establishing and training health care facility decontamination teams

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 381-390

  Hick, John L ^a,e   Penn, Paul ^b   Hanfling, Dan ^c,d   Lappe, Mark A ^e   O'Laughlin, Dan ^a   Burstein, Jonathan L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b EnMagine   (United States)

^c BETTY AND GUY BEATTY CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FIRST AID; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAINING;

EID: 0042631501     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00442-6     Document Type: Article

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