Pediatric Outpatient/Urgent-Care Emergency and Disaster Planning
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Health informatics for pediatric disaster preparedness planning.
OBJECTIVE 1. To conduct a review of the role of informatics in pediatric disaster preparedness using all medical databases. 2. To provide recommendations to improve pediatric disaster preparedness by the application of informatics. METHODS A literature search was conducted using MEDLINE, CINHL and the Cochrane Library using the key words "children" AND "disaster preparedness and disaster" AND...
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عنوان ژورنال: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1049-023X,1945-1938
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x19003510