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Assessment of disaster preparedness at general hospitals in Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah Province, Western Region of Saudi Arabia

A study of pre intervention and post intervention test scores from 2017 to 2019

Anas Khan, Jalal Alowais, Abdullah Nofal and Tareef Alama
Saudi Medical Journal May 2021, 42 (5) 537-542; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.5.20200804
Anas Khan
From the Department of Emergency Medicine (Khan), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Surgery (Alowais), College of Medicine, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University; from the Disaster Management Unit (Nofal), King Saud University Medical City; and from the Ministry of Health (Alama), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Jalal Alowais
From the Department of Emergency Medicine (Khan), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Surgery (Alowais), College of Medicine, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University; from the Disaster Management Unit (Nofal), King Saud University Medical City; and from the Ministry of Health (Alama), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Abdullah Nofal
From the Department of Emergency Medicine (Khan), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Surgery (Alowais), College of Medicine, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University; from the Disaster Management Unit (Nofal), King Saud University Medical City; and from the Ministry of Health (Alama), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Tareef Alama
From the Department of Emergency Medicine (Khan), College of Medicine, King Saud University; from the Department of Surgery (Alowais), College of Medicine, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University; from the Disaster Management Unit (Nofal), King Saud University Medical City; and from the Ministry of Health (Alama), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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