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Editorial Comments—Nursing in Sudden-Onset Disasters: Factors and Information that Affect Participation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Robin D. Tyler
Affiliation:
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Los Angeles, California, USA, E-mail: rtyler@dhs.co.la.ca.us

Abstract

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Editorial Comments
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2003

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