Realities of rural emergency medical services disaster preparedness

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 64-70

  Furbee, Paul M ^a   Coben, Jeffery H ^a   Smyth, Sharon K ^a   Manley, William G ^a,b   Summers, Daniel E ^a   Sanddal, Nels D ^d   Sanddal, Teri L ^d   Helmkamp, James C ^a   Kimble, Rodney L ^a   Althouse, Ronald C ^a,c   Kocsis, Aaron T ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Critical Illness and Trauma Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

education; emergency medical services (EMS); preparedness; rural; surge capacity; training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; RURAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746092933     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0000337X     Document Type: Article

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