Performance Indicators for Major Incident Medical Management – A Possible Tool for Quality Control?

International Journal of Disaster Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 42006, 2004, Pages 52-55

  RÜTER, Anders ^a   ÖRTENWALL, Per ^b   WIKSTRÖM, Thore ^a  

^a Centre for Teaching and Research in Disaster Medicine   (Sweden)

^b Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Centre PKMC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

control and command; goals; KAMEDO reports; management; objectives; scene of accident; strategic level

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745866335     PISSN: 15031438     EISSN: 16513037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15031430410023355     Document Type: Article

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