Kidney patient care in disasters: Lessons from the hurricanes and earthquake of 2005

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 814-824

  Kopp, Jeffrey B ^a   Ball, Lynda K ^b   Cohen, Andrew ^c   Kenney, Robert J ^d   Lempert, Kenneth D ^e   Miller, Paul E ^f   Muntner, Paul ^g   Qureshi, Nauman ^h   Yelton, Sarah A ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b Northwest Renal Network   (United States)

^c OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d Diabet Ctr of the Baton Rouge G   (United States)

^e Eye Institute of Northwestern Ohio   (United States)

^f Miller Dialysis Acadiana Region   (United States)

^g TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

ⁱ Heartland Kidney Network (ESRD Network 12)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; PAKISTAN; UNITED STATES;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LOUISIANA; NATURAL DISASTERS; PAKISTAN;

EID: 34548823803     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.03481006     Document Type: Article

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