Impact of military conflict on a civilian receiving hospital in a war zone

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 502-509

  Hadary, Amram ^a   Schecter, William ^b   Embon, Oscar M ^a   Einav, Sharon ^c  

^a Rebecca Sieff Government Hospital   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Economics; Hospital; Hospitals; Military medicine; Operative; Surgery; Surgical procedures; War; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS DISASTER; MILITARY MEDICINE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL WARD; WAR; WORKLOAD; ECONOMICS; INJURY; ISRAEL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; WAR; WORKLOAD; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63449103761     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318199f232     Document Type: Article

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