Trends - The dwindling supply of empty beds: Implications for hospital surge capacity

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1688-1694

  DeLia, Derek ^a   Wood, Elizabeth ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Jersey Office of the Child Advocate   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; POPULATION GROWTH; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; HUMAN; MASS DISASTER; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56649083473     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.6.1688     Document Type: Article

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