Leadership and use of standards by Australian disaster medical assistance teams: Results of a national survey of team members

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 142-147

  Aitken, Peter ^a,b   Leggat, Peter A ^a,b   Robertson, Andrew G ^a,c   Harley, Hazel ^a,c,d   Speare, Richard ^a   Leclercq, Muriel G ^a,c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TOWNSVILLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Australia; disaster; Disaster Medical Assistance Team; DMAT; leadership; measures of effectiveness; medical assistance; Southeast Asia; standard

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MANPOWER; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISASTERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84862562084     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12000489     Document Type: Article

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