Rapidly-deployed small tent hospitals: lessons from the earthquake in Haiti.
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1. Superior NanoBioSystems LLC, Washington, DC USA 2. Fast Israeli Rescue & Search Team, Emek-Hayarden, Israel 3. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois USA 4. Clinique Adonai, Camps de Pétion-ville, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti 5. Department of Materials Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 6. Masters and PhD Program, ‘‘Confronting Large-Scale-Sudden-Disasters [LSSDs],’’ University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Prehospital and disaster medicine
دوره 27 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012