Prehospital and disaster medicine
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Note: Many of the concepts and some of the text and content provided in this paper were developed in association with Knut Ole Sundnes, MD and evolved from the Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style. * Initial and partial support for this project was provided by the Task Force for Quality Control of Disaster Management. This Project is under the auspices of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Abstract The goals of conducting disaster research are to obtain information to: (1) decrease the human, environmental, and economic losses; (2) decrease morbidity; (3) decrease pain and suffering; and (4) enhance the recovery of the affected population. ⋯ Birnbaum ML , Daily EK , O'Rourke AP , Loretti A. Disaster research/evaluation frameworks, part 1: an overview. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2014;29(2):1-12 .