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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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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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