''Prehospital and Disaster Medicine'' is a bimonthly

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covering research in the field of

emergency medicine Emergency medicine is the medical speciality concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians (often called “ER doctors” in the United States) continuously learn to care for unsche ...

, including out-of-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical care,

disaster medicine Disaster medicine is the area of medical specialization serving the dual areas of providing health care to disaster survivors and providing medically related disaster preparation, disaster planning, disaster response and disaster recovery lead ...

, emergency

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and safety, and disaster

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and

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. It was established in 1985 as the '' Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine'', obtaining its current title in 1989. It is published

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on behalf of the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine. The

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is Samuel J. Stratton (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *

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According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2018

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of 1.010.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/prehospital-and-disaster-medicine Cambridge University Press academic journals Bimonthly journals Publications established in 1985 Emergency medicine journals English-language journals