Tornadoes and disaster management: not just in Kansas, Dorothy.
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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 medicine literature. Moreover, its publication reinforces the importance of this new journal in bridging the gap between the acute care medicine and the public health worlds.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
دوره 1 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007