title: Hospitals and terrorism: the realities; the future; mitigating risks.
abstract: Terrorist acts near hospitals and actual attacks on hospitals have become frequent in other countries and should not be ignored by security planners in this country, the author warns. In this article he sets forth steps which can be taken now to deal with and prevent such occurrences here.
authors.affiliation: Seattle Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: James R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Sawyer
mesh_terms: D006761:Hospitals; D012308:Risk Management; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D023481:Terrorism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States