Relationship Between Standards of Procedures for Pandemic Flu and Level of Hospital Performance in Simulated Drills

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-229

  Adini, Bruria ^a,b   Goldberg, Avishay ^b   Cohen, Robert ^c   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^b,d  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d IDF Home Front Command ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; INFLUENZA; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION;

DISASTERS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISRAEL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 49549105475     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.03.022     Document Type: Article

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