Efficacy of critical incident monitoring for evaluating disaster medical readiness and response during the sydney 2000 olympic games

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 164-168

  Flabouris, Arthas ^a,b   Nocera, Antony ^a   Garner, Alan ^a  

^a Disaster Medical Response Teams New South Wales (NSW) Health   (Australia)

^b Liverpool Health Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

critical incident monitoring; medical response; multiple casualty incidents; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROWDING; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SPORT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; CROWDING; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SPORTS;

EID: 7944238015     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00001680     Document Type: Article

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