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Assessing the pre-hospital care preparedness to face mass casualty incident in Saudi Arabia in 2017-2018

Maged S. Alotaibi and Anas A. Khan
Saudi Medical Journal October 2019, 40 (10) 1032-1039; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.10.24292

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