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Emergency care for children : growing pains

Title
Emergency care for children : growing pains / Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System, Board on Health Care Services, Insititute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System.
Description
xxii, 338 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Emergency Care for Children examines the challenges associated with the provision of emergency services to children. It evaluates progress since the publication of the Institute of Medicine report Emergency Medical Services for Children (1993), the first comprehensive look at pediatric emergency care in the United States. Emergency Care for Children will be of particular interest to emergency health care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the pediatric deficiencies within their emergency care systems."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Future of emergency care
Uniform Title
Future of emergency care.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. History and current state of pediatric emergency care -- 3. Building a 21st-century emergency and trauma care system -- 4. Arming the emergency care workforce with pediatric knowledge and skills -- 5. Improving the quality of pediatric emergency care -- 6. Improving emergency preparedness and response for children involved in disasters -- 7. Building the evidence base for pediatric emergency care.
ISBN
  • 9780309101714 (hardback)
  • 0309101719 (hardback)
LCCN
2007002800
OCLC
  • ocm80180987
  • 80180987
  • SCSB-5338723
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Columbia University Libraries