Geographic access to burn center hospitals

JAMA

Volumn 302, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1774-1781

  Klein, Matthew B ^a,b   Kramer, C Bradley ^a   Nelson, Jason ^d   Rivara, Frederick P ^c   Gibran, Nicole S ^a   Concannon, Thomas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVIATION; BURN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HELICOPTER; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR VEHICLE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AIR AMBULANCES; BURN UNITS; BURNS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350741161     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1548     Document Type: Article

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