Guidelines for reports on health crises and critical health events

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 377-383

  Kulling, Per ^a   Birnbaum, Marvin ^b   Murray, Virginia ^c   Rockenschaub, Gerald ^d  

^a Emerit Seconded National Expert Health and Consumers Direct General European Commission   (United Kingdom)

^b Dept of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d WHO Regional Office for Europe   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical health event; disaster; guidelines; health crisis; lessons identified; lessons learned; lessons observed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DOCUMENTATION; HEALTH; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

DISASTERS; DOCUMENTATION; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 78049514918     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00008402     Document Type: Review

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