The significance of a small, level-3 'semi evacuation' hospital in a terrorist attack in a nearby town

Disasters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-235

  Pinkert, Moshe ^a   Leiba, Adi ^a   Zaltsman, Eilon ^a   Erez, Onn ^a   Blumenfeld, Amir ^a   Avinoam, Shkolnick ^b   Laor, Daniel ^c   Schwartz, Dagan ^d   Goldberg, Avishay ^d   Levi, Yehezkel ^a   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b Laniado Hospital

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Evacuation hospital; Mass casualty incident; Secondary distribution; Semi evacuation hospital; Terrorism; Trauma centre

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TERRORISM; WOUNDING;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; TERRORISM;

DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESCUE WORK; RURAL POPULATION; TERRORISM; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 34548087862     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2007.01006.x     Document Type: Article

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