Emergency legal preparedness for hospitals and health care personnel

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Hodge, James G ^a,d   Garcia, Andrea M ^b   Anderson, Evan D ^c   Kaufman, Torrey ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c Center for Law and the Public's Health   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; MALPRACTICE; UNITED STATES;

DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67949086796     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 193844X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e31819d977c     Document Type: Article

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