Trends in healthcare use in the New York City region following the terrorist attacks of 2001

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 263-275

  Green, Diane C ^a   Buehler, James W ^b   Silk, Benjamin J ^b   Thompson, Nancy J ^b   Schild, Laura A ^b   Klein, Mitchel ^b   Berkelman, Ruth L ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK CITY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 33749532846     PISSN: 15387135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bsp.2006.4.263     Document Type: Article

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