Coordinating Emergency Medical Services in Mass Casualty Disaster: The Ideal Versus the Reality
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1977-02
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Disaster Research Center
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Centralized coordination of the emergency medical response to disaster situations is commonly advanced as the ideal, but no research has examined the prevalence of such responses or rated the relative effectiveness. This paper reports an explanatory study which allows some initial impressions and tentative conclusions in regard to this issue
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emergency, EMS, coordination