Tornadoes and Disaster Management: Not Just in Kansas, Dorothy
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Tornadoes and disaster management: not just in Kansas, Dorothy.
After-action reports detailing the preparation, response, and outcomes after large tornadoes are sparse in the medical literature. Thus, the retrospective report by Ablah and colleagues1 in this issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, documenting the EF5 tornado that devastated Greensburg, KS, in May 2007, is a timely and important contribution to the growing disaster medicin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1935-7893,1938-744X
DOI: 10.1097/dmp.0b013e31815bd20f