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Volume 348:1307-1308 April 3, 2003 Number 14 Next

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The events of September 11, 2001, served to crystallize a decade-long evolution of the role of hospitals in emergency preparedness and disaster management. The article by Schultz et al. in this issue of the Journal (pages 1349–1355) emphasizes several important lessons learned since the Northridge, California, earthquake. Although health care institutions have responded to regional catastrophes for decades, hospitals have more typically responded as individual institutions to local crises. Health care institutions must now learn to function as coordinated components of a regional response to crises that are more far-reaching. With this new role comes a host of issues, including . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From New York Presbyterian Hospital–Healthcare System, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Weill Medical College of Cornell University — all in New York.

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