Assessment of the Reliability of the Johns Hopkins/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Hospital Disaster Drill Evaluation Tool

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Kaji, Amy H ^a,b,c   Lewis, Roger J ^a,b,c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY; ARTICLE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; KUDER RICHARDSON COEFFICIENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BIOTERRORISM; DATA COLLECTION; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY;

EID: 49549109864     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.07.025     Document Type: Article

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