Medical experience of a university hospital in Turkey after the 1999 Marmara earthquake

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 494-498

  Bulut, M ^a   Fedakar, R ^a   Akkose, S ^a   Akgoz, S ^a   Ozguc, H ^a   Tokyay, R ^b  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CRUSH SYNDROME; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORGAN INJURY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; CRUSH SYNDROME; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TURKEY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 21644484320     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.016295     Document Type: Review

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