Identifying and tracking disaster victims: State-of-the-art technology review

Family and Community Health

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-34

  Pate, Barbara L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster victims; Identification technology; Large scale disasters; Mass casualty incidents; Tracking technology

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; DENTISTRY; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; ROBOTICS;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIOMETRY; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; FORENSIC DENTISTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; ROBOTICS;

EID: 37349029017     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.FCH.0000304065.40571.3b     Document Type: Review

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