SARS: A wake up call for a health care system under stress

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 409-412

  Cameron, Peter A ^a,b,c   Rainer, Timothy H ^a,c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL STAFF; MORALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0344233241     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2003.00493.x     Document Type: Review

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