Emergency surgery data and documentation reporting forms for sudden-onset humanitarian crises, natural disasters and the existing burden of surgical disease

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 577-582

  Burkle, Frederick M ^a,b   Nickerson, Jason W ^c   Von Schreeb, Johan ^d   Redmond, Anthony D ^e   McQueen, Kelly A ^f   Norton, Ian ^g   Roy, Nobhojit ^h  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^h TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

burden of surgical disease; data collection; emergency surgery; field epidemiology; foreign medical team; health cluster; humanitarian assistance

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; DISASTER; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL RECORD; RESCUE PERSONNEL; REVIEW; STANDARD; SURGERY;

ALTRUISM; DISASTERS; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; HUMANS; MEDICAL MISSIONS, OFFICIAL; MEDICAL RECORDS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84870470489     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12001306     Document Type: Review

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