Roadmap for the protection of disaster research participants: Findings from the world trade center evacuation study

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 486-493

  Qureshi, Kristine A ^a   Gershon, Robyn R M ^b   Smailes, Elizabeth ^c   Raveis, Victoria H ^b   Murphy, Bridgette ^d   Matzner, Frederick ^e   Fleischman, Alan R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Columbia University Mailman School of Public Heath Department of Sociomedical Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c Providence Health Care   (Canada)

^d MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e OUR LADY OF MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster; ethics; human subjects; protection; roadmap; World Trade Center research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH SUBJECT; TERRORISM;

DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; RESCUE WORK; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 52149121832     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00005306     Document Type: Article

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