Assessment of Physician Preparedness and Response Capacity to Bioterrorism or Other Public Health Emergency Events in a Major Metropolitan Area

Disaster Management and Response

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 82-86

  Spranger, Cathy B ^a,b   Villegas, Dorian ^a,b   Kazda, Michael J ^a,b   Harris, Ann Marie ^a,b   Mathew, Shane ^a,b   Migala, Witold ^a,b  

^a City of Fort Worth Public Health Department   (United States)

^b City of Fort Worth Public Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSULTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOTERRORISM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSULTANTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EMERGENCIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TEXAS;

EID: 34548719360     PISSN: 15402487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dmr.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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