SARS control and psychological effects of quarantine, Toronto, Canada

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1206-1212

  Hawryluck, Laura ^a   Gold, Wayne L ^a   Robinson, Susan ^a   Pogorski, Stephen ^b   Galea, Sandro ^c   Styra, Rima ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ASK Information Technologies   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 3042740345     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1007.030703     Document Type: Article

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