Establishment of disaster medical assistance team standards and evaluation of the teams’ disaster preparedness: An experience from Taiwan

Background/Purpose: Taiwan set up disaster medical assistance teams (DMATs) after the Chi-Chi earthquake, but these teams lack unified standards. Methods: This study was divided into two phases. Phase I was a Delphi study conducted in 2019 with 26 experts who were invited to establish Taiwan's...

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Main Authors: Ning-Ping Foo, Ya-Yun Cheng, Yu-Cheng Hung, Shih-Tien Pan, Yu-Long Chen, Keng-Wei Hu, Chung-Yu Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-04-01
Series:Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664621004666