The efficacy of integrating "smart simulated casualties" in hospital disaster drills

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 26-30

  Gofrit, Ofer N ^a   Leibovici, Dan ^a   Shemer, Joshua ^a,b   Henig, Avinoam ^a   Shapira, Shmuel C ^c  

^a Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps ^*  (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

evaluation; hospital disaster drill; physicians; simulated casualties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858529823     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00037365     Document Type: Article

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