Impact of the terrorist bombings of the Neve Shalom and Beth Israel Synagogues on a hospital in Istanbul, Turkey

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-141

  Rodoplu, Ülkümen ^a,f   Arnold, Jeffrey L ^b   Tokyay, Rifat ^c   Ersoy, Gurkan ^d   Cetiner, Serkan ^a   Yücel, Tayfun ^e  

^a Emergency Med Association of Turkey   (Turkey)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^d DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e Taksim Educ and Res State Hospital   (Turkey)

^f NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EYE INJURY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; TERRORISM; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FACE INJURY; FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LACERATION; MASS DISASTER; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR; TIME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BLAST INJURIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS; TERRORISM; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TURKEY;

EID: 12844257671     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.09.019     Document Type: Article

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