Virtual reality triage training provides a viable solution for disaster-preparedness

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 870-876

  Andreatta, Pamela B ^a   Maslowski, Eric ^a   Petty, Sean ^a   Shim, Woojin ^a   Marsh, Michael ^a   Hall, Theodore ^a   Stern, Susan ^a   Frankel, Jen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster medicine; Mass casualty incidents; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SIMULATION; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; CURRICULUM; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; PATIENT SIMULATION; TEACHING; TRIAGE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77955732236     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00728.x     Document Type: Article

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