Commentary on "terrorism, trauma, and mass casualty triage"

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-167

  Wessely, Simon ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERRORISM; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; HUMANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERMINOLOGY; TERRORISM; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34547473647     PISSN: 15387135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bsp.2006.0903     Document Type: Note

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