Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 123-125 , September 2009

Pediatric Disaster Readiness: How Far Have We Come?

  • Sarita Chung, MD, FAAP

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Sarita Chung, MD, Center for Biopreparedness, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School.

References 

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PII: S1522-8401(09)00057-3

doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2009.07.003

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 123-125 , September 2009