Critically assessing the haiti earthquake response and the barriers to quality orthopaedic care trauma

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2895-2904

  Sonshine, Daniel B ^a,b,c   Caldwell, Amber ^b,c   Gosselin, Richard A ^b,c,d   Born, Christopher T ^e   Coughlin, R Richard ^b,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; DISASTER MEDICINE; EARTHQUAKE; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESCUE PERSONNEL; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 84866422523     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-012-2333-4     Document Type: Article

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