Houston's Medical Disaster Response to Hurricane Katrina: Part 1: The Initial Medical Response From Trauma Service Area Q

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 505-514

  Hamilton, Douglas R ^a   Gavagan, Thomas F ^b   Smart, Kieran T ^c   Upton, Lori A ^d   Havron, Douglas A ^e   Weller, Nancy F ^a   Shah, Umair A ⁱ   Fishkind, Avrim ^f   Persse, David ^g   Shank, Paul ^h   Mattox, Kenneth ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Southeast Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council   (United States)

^f Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County   (United States)

^g City of Houston's Emergency Medical Services   (United States)

^h San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center   (United States)

ⁱ Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NATURAL DISASTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

CYCLONES; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; PATIENT TRANSFER; RELIEF WORK; TEXAS; TRIAGE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 62349097714     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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