Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM)

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM) is an official publication of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Currently in its 25th volume, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine is one of the leading scientific journals focusing on prehospital and disaster health. It is the only peer-reviewed international journal in its field, published bi-monthly, providing a readable, usable worldwide source of research and analysis. PDM is currently distributed in more than 55 countries. Its readership includes physicians, professors, EMTs and paramedics, nurses, emergency managers, disaster planners, hospital administrators, sociologists, and psychologists.

Call for Papers - Disaster Nursing Supplement
PDM is planning to publish its second disaster nursing supplement in late 2010.  The purpose of the supplement is to provide a forum for disaster nursing research that disseminates the information globally and creates a knowledge database that qualifies and enhances the healthcare provided by nurses in a variety of roles and settings throughout all phases of a disaster.  The intent is not to separate the field of disaster nursing from other disciplines, but to highlight it. Through the addition of the disaster nursing supplement, PDM seeks to actively encourage and cultivate evidence-based qualitative and quantitative disaster nursing research worldwide.

PDM Supplements
Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research, 2003