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Editorial Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2017

Marvin L. Birnbaum
Marvin L. Birnbaum
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University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 330
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1991

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