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Hospital Preparation for Disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Christopher A. Kahn
Christopher A. Kahn*
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, California, USA
*
ckahn@uci.edu
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 182 - 183
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2008

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