Evaluation of disaster preparedness for mass casualty incidents in private hospitals in Central Saudi Arabia

Abdullah A. Bin Shalhoub; Anas A. Khan; Yaser A. Alaska

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Evaluation of disaster preparedness for mass casualty incidents in private hospitals in Central Saudi Arabia

Abdullah A. Bin Shalhoub, Anas A. Khan and Yaser A. Alaska

Saudi Medical Journal March 2017, 38 (3) 302-306; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.3.17483

Abdullah A. Bin Shalhoub

From the Ministry of Health (Bin Shalhoub), Al-Washim District, and the Emergency Medicine Department (Khan, Alaska), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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For correspondence: [email protected]

Anas A. Khan

From the Ministry of Health (Bin Shalhoub), Al-Washim District, and the Emergency Medicine Department (Khan, Alaska), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Yaser A. Alaska

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vol. 38 no. 3 302-306

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Received October 27, 2016
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Published online March 1, 2017.

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Abdullah A. Bin Shalhoub, MPH ⇑,
Anas A. Khan, MD, SBEM and
Yaser A. Alaska, MD, SBEM

From the Ministry of Health (Bin Shalhoub), Al-Washim District, and the Emergency Medicine Department (Khan, Alaska), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Abdullah A. Bin Shalhoub, Ministry of Health, Al-Washim District, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: Alshalhoubabdullah{at}gmail.com

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Abdullah A. Bin Shalhoub, Anas A. Khan, Yaser A. Alaska

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Abdullah A. Bin Shalhoub, Anas A. Khan, Yaser A. Alaska

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