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Disaster surge planning in Australia: measuring the immeasurable
Author(s) -
Robertson Andrew G,
Cooper David M
Publication year - 2007
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.1326-5377.2007.tb00969.x
Subject(s) - officer , preparedness , darwin (adl) , health care , management , library science , history , operations research , political science , law , engineering , systems engineering , computer science , economics
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 16 April 2007 186 8 388-389 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2007 www.mja.com.au Editorials outbreaks, the rising threat of pandemic influenza, an and London bombings in 2004 and 2005. Mass trauma events in urban environments creat lems for hospitals in the first 4 hours, with th casualties likely to arrive at hospital in the first 60– Health systems need to be able to meet this increased acute mass casualty events, with an influx of patie A call for better data and focused research