Editorial: Laboratory medicine and natural disasters: Are we ready for the challenge?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 573-575

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Favaloro, Emmanuel J ^b   Plebani, Mario ^c  

^a Academic Hospital of Parma   (Italy)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Catastrophe; Laboratory medicine; Laboratory testing; Natural disasters

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; DROUGHT; EARTHQUAKE; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EPIDEMIC; FIRE; FLOODING; GAMMA RADIATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; HUNGER; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LABORATORY; MASS DISASTER; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NATURAL DISASTER; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; VOLCANO; WAR; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; DISASTER; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DISASTERS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS;

EID: 77952486690     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2010.148     Document Type: Editorial

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