Pattern of drug prescription and utilization among Bam residents during the first six months after the 2003 Bam Earthquake

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 396-402

  Sepehri, Gholamreza ^a   Meimandi, Manzumeh Shamsi ^b  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bam; drug administration; drug utilization; earthquake; humanitarian aid; illness; prescriptions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISASTER; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; STATISTICS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; NATURAL DISASTERS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 33947580461     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00004106     Document Type: Article

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