Surgical and psychosocial outcomes in the rural injured - A follow-up study of the 2001 earthquake victims

Injury

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 927-934

  Roy, Nobhojit ^a   Shah, Hemant ^b   Patel, Vikas ^c   Bagalkote, Hemant ^d  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b Gandhi Lincoln Hospital   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^d Division of Psychiatry   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amputation; Buffer zone; Developing countries; Disaster; Earthquake; Field hospitals; Gujarat; India; International rescue; January 2001; Missed injuries; Post traumatic stress disorder; Postoperative infection; Reoperations; Rural surgery; Trauma Outcome

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DEFORMITY; DISABILITY; EARTHQUAKE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIRST AID; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INJURY; INTERVIEW; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; ORTHOPEDICS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; POLLEN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REOPERATION; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; RELIEF WORK; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 22044437838     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2005.02.017     Document Type: Article

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