Establishing disaster medical assistance teams in Japan

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 556-564

  Kondo, Hisayoshi ^a   Koido, Yuichi ^a   Morino, Kazuma ^b   Homma, Masato ^a   Otomo, Yasuhiro ^c   Yamamoto, Yasuhiro ^d   Henmi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION DISASTER MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Life style Related Diseases   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Tokyo Rinkai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

acute phase; critical care medicine; disaster; disaster base hospital; Disaster Medical Assistance Team; disaster medical system; information system; transportation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMAN; JAPAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; JAPAN;

EID: 77951650746     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00007512     Document Type: Article

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