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23 - Mass Fatality Management

from Part II - Operational Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Kristi L. Koenig
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Carl H. Schultz
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Koenig and Schultz's Disaster Medicine
Comprehensive Principles and Practices
, pp. 361 - 375
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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