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Measures of Effectiveness of Hospital Incident Command System Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Jeffrey L. Arnold ,
James Paturas  and
Ülkümen Rodoplu
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Keywords

effectivenessemergency managementhospital emergency incident command system (HEICS)incident command system (ICS)performancetriage
Type
Letters to the Editor
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , June 2005 , pp. 202 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2005

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