Research Methods of Inquiry

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1183-1192

  Rodgers, Joel ^a   Foushee, Russell ^a   Terndrup, Thomas E ^a   Gaddis, Gary M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster preparedness; health care systems; hospital; mass casualty preparedness; research methodology; surge capacity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSENSUS; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 33750999621     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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