The 2007 San Diego wildfire impact on the emergency Department of the University of California, San Diego hospital system

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 472-476

  Schranz, Craig I ^a,c   Castillo, Edward M ^b   Vilke, Gary M ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

air pollution; disaster; emergency department; fire; firestorm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FIRE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIHOSPITAL SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; CALIFORNIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FIRES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79952108307     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0000858X     Document Type: Article

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