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Editorial Comments—Psychological Effects of Patient Surge in Large-Scale Emergencies: A Quality Improvement Tool for Hospital and Clinic Capacity Planning and Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Yaron Bar-Dayan
Yaron Bar-Dayan*
Affiliation:
Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command, Israel; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
*
bardayan@netvision.net.il
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 115 - 116
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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