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The Group Process: A Regional Disaster Planning Methodology for Multidisciplinary Consensus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Frank L. Brown Jr.  and
Sharon L. Connelly
Frank L. Brown Jr.
Affiliation:
Office of Scientific and Clinical Affairs, NISEM, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Sharon L. Connelly
Affiliation:
Office of Scientific and Clinical Affairs, NISEM, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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In accordance with the 1973 Emergency Medical Services Systems Act in the United States, one of the 15 functions to be performed by every EMS (Emergency Medical Services) system is disaster planning. The predicate of success in remediating such a macrosystem challenge as regional disaster planning requires the consensus of multidisciplinary health care and public safety human resources prior to the effective cataloging of physical resources. As the emergency physician is the medical leader of EMS system design and implementation, it is important that he explore newly developing disaster planning methodologies to facilitate consensus disaster planning.

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Research Article
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Contributions from the Third World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Rome, Italy, May, 1983 , 1987 , pp. 68 - 73
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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