Health
Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style
Task Force on Quality Control of Disaster Management
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Nordic Society for Disaster Medicine
There have been
substantial changes in the Conceptual Framework
VOLUME 1: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
HAS BEEN PUBLISHED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME
17, NUMBER 4 of
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. It has been forwarded to all subscribers
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This is the first of five volumes. Each will be provided
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Volume 2: Operational and Research/Evaluation
Frameworks (Available 2006)
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Volume 4: Case Studies
Volume 5: Appendices
Volumes 2 and 3 are in the process of completion.
Collaborating Organizations:
Mediterranean Club for Burns and Fire Disasters
Nordic Society of Disaster Medicine
Nordic International Rescue Foundation
Organization of African Unity
Swedish National Board on Health and Welfare
United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
The Task Force on Quality Control of Disaster Management is comprised of the fo/lowing members:
Jacov Adler, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and Israel
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, USA Professor Johan Calltorp, PhD, Sweden Professor S. William A. Gunn, MD, Switzerland
Dr. O.J. Khatib, MD, Organization of African Unity
Professor Michele Massellis, MD, Italy
Ernesto A. Pretto, MD, MPH, USA
Robert Souria, United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Switzerland
Knot Ole Sundnes, MD, Norway, Chairman
Takashi Ukai, Japan
Other participants:
Dr. Matti Matilla, Finland
Karl-Axel Norberg, MD, Sweden
Edmund Ricci, PhD, USA
Margareta Rubin, Sweden
Correspondence:
K.O. Sundnes, MD
Department of Anaesthesia
1355 Baerum P.T., Norway
Telephone: +int-47-57809400;
FAX: -int-47-67-809976
M.L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD
E5/613 Clinical Sciences Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 Highland
Madison, WI 53792 USA
Telephone:+int-1-608-263-7094
FAX:+int-1-608-263-0641
e-mail: mlb@medicine.wisc.edu
This work was supported in part by grants from the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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