To Evacuate or Not to Evacuate: Lessons Learned From Louisiana Nursing Home Administrators Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 142-149

  Dosa, David M ^a,b   Grossman, Nancy ^a   Wetle, Terrie ^a   Mor, Vincent ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency preparedness; evacuation; hurricanes; Nursing homes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PATIENT TRANSPORT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; FOCUS GROUPS; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOUISIANA; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT TRANSFER; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 33847388868     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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