Alternate site surge capacity in times of public health disaster maintains trauma center and emergency department integrity: Hurricane Katrina

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-257

  Eastman, Alexander L ^a   Rinnert, Kathy J ^a   Nemeth, Ira R ^a   Fowler, Raymond L ^a   Minei, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Emergency medical services; Prehospital care; Public health; Surge capacity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; NATURAL DISASTERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROBABILITY; RESCUE WORK; TEXAS; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547924174     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3180d0a70e     Document Type: Article

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