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Disasters, the media and doctors
Author(s) -
Nocera Antony
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2000.tb127942.x
Subject(s) - medical emergency , mass casualty incident , incident response , disaster response , mass casualty , control (management) , mass media , computer security , emergency management , business , medicine , suicide prevention , poison control , computer science , political science , advertising , artificial intelligence , law
Disasters and mass casualty incidents are traumatic events that are followed by a predictable media response. Managing the media response appropriately can avoid problems in a hospital's security, command, control and communications structures and mitigate the stress of hospital staff attempting to deal with the incident.