title: Perspectives on coordination from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense/Health Affairs.
abstract: Many teams from each of the different military services, as well as numerous civilian agencies, were involved in providing care to the victims, survivors, and family members of the September 11th attacks. However, the different teams initially had difficulties with communication and command and control issues. This article describes the perspective from Health Affairs on coordination of those efforts.
mesh_terms: D000401:Aircraft; D003142:Communication; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004631:Emergency Medical Service Communication Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D037041:United States Government Agencies; D014768:Virginia