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Letter to the Editor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Lori Uscher-Pines
Lori Uscher-Pines*
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MarylandUSA
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Lori Uscher-Pines Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, HPM1358 Indian Creek Dr.Wynnewood, PA 19096USA E-mail: luscher@jhsph.edu
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 149 - 151
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