Characteristics of Medical Surge Capacity Demand for Sudden-impact Disasters

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1193-1197

  Stratton, Samuel J ^a   Tyler, Robin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster; emergency medical services; emergency medicine; health care; health care capacity; health services; public health services; surge capacity

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; UNITED STATES;

DISASTERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750976973     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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