Study of Electrical Power Facilities and Measures for Planned Outages in Japanese Hemodialysis Clinics After the Great East Japan Earthquake

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-71

  Ishida, Kai ^a   Sawa, Manami ^a   Fujiwara, Kousaku ^a   Hirose, Minoru ^a   Tsuruta, Harukazu ^a   Takeuchi, Akihiro ^a   Ikeda, Noriaki ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electricity facility; Hemodialysis; Planned outage; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DEVICE SAFETY; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GENERATOR; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; POWER PLANTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84873425867     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2012.01115.x     Document Type: Article

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