Population mortality during the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Toronto

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hwang, Stephen W ^a,b   Cheung, Angela M ^b,c   Moineddin, Rahim ^b   Bell, Chaim M ^b,d  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34250803355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-93     Document Type: Article

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