Lessons Learned From Clinical Anthrax Drills: Evaluation of Knowledge and Preparedness for a Bioterrorist Threat in Israeli Emergency Departments

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Leiba, Adi ^a   Goldberg, Avi ^a   Hourvitz, Ariel ^a   Amsalem, Yoram ^a   Aran, Adi ^a   Weiss, Gali ^a   Leiba, Ronit ^b   Yehezkelli, Yoav ^a   Goldberg, Avishay ^c   Levi, Yehezkel ^a   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRIEND; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; ISRAEL; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREAT;

EID: 33746154549     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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