Tactical and operational response to major incidents: Feasibility and reliability of skills assessment using novel virtual environments

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 992-998

  Cohen, Daniel ^a   Sevdalis, Nick ^a   Patel, Vishal ^a   Taylor, Michael ^a   Lee, Henry ^a   Vokes, Mick ^b   Heys, Mick ^b   Taylor, David ^a   Batrick, Nicola ^c   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Ambulance HART   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Emergency preparedness; Prehospital response; Simulation; Trauma; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPLOSION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RESUSCITATION; SELF EVALUATION; SIMULATION; SKILL;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TRAUMATOLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84878884540     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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