Strategies to improve pediatric disaster surge response: Potential mortality reduction and tradeoffs

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2837-2842

  Kanter, Robert K ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Pediatric intensive care; Public health; Standards of care; Surge capacity; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INTENSIVE CARE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36448968659     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000287579.10746.43     Document Type: Article

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