Equipment, Supplies, and Pharmaceuticals: How Much Might It Cost to Achieve Basic Surge Capacity?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1232-1237

  Hanfling, Dan ^a  

^a BETTY AND GUY BEATTY CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

critical care; disaster medicine; pandemic influenza; surge capacity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOARD OF TRUSTEES; DISASTER; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL STAFF; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

BIOTERRORISM; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS;

EID: 33750986516     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.03.567     Document Type: Article

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