doi:10.1017/dmp.2014.101, Published by Cambridge University Press, 14 November 14.
The article, “An organizational metamodel for hospital emergency departments”Reference Kaptan 1 has been retracted having been informed that it includes significant parts of text taken from an article previously published in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics.Reference Cimellaro, Rienhorn and Bruneau 2 This decision is also based on the guidelines issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The author did not respond adequately to enquiries regarding this matter. The Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. and the publisher apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.
