Practical strategies to reduce morbidity and mortality of natural catastrophes: A retrospective study based on bam earthquake experience

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 347-352

  Najafi, Iraj ^a,b   Safari, Saeed ^a,b   Sharifi, Ali ^a   Sanadgol, Houshang ^c   Hosseini, Mostafa ^a   Rashid Farokhi, Farin ^d   Seirafian, Shiva ^e   Mooraki, Ahmad ^f   Samimagham, Hamidreza ^g   Osare, Shahrzad ^h   Pourfarziani, Vahid ⁱ   Atabak, Shahnaz ^j   Boroumand, Behrooz ^h  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^g HORMOZGAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^h IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

ⁱ MILAD HOSPITAL   (Iran)

^j SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

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Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Disaster medicine; Disaster relief planning; Earthquake

Indexed keywords

INFUSION FLUID;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGED CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHROLOGIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; VICTIM; DISASTER; IRAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70349898729     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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