Chief complaints, diagnoses, and medications prescribed seven weeks post-Katrina in New Orleans

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-47

  Howe, Erica ^a   Victor, David ^a   Price, Eboni G ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chief complaint; complaints; demography; diagnosis; flood; Hurricane Katrina; medications; New Orleans

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 46349090918     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00005549     Document Type: Article

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