Impact of the terrorist bombings of the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corporation headquarters and the British consulate on two hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2003

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 195-201

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

^a Alsancak State Hospital   (Turkey)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Taksim Education and Training Hospital   (Turkey)

^d AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^e DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f Emergency Med Association of Turkey   (Turkey)

^g NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Explosion; Hospital epidemiology; Resource utilization; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; SURVIVAL; TERRORISM; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BLAST INJURIES; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTERVIEWS; MALE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS; TERRORISM; TURKEY;

EID: 24644514530     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000171527.49354.8F     Document Type: Article

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