Mortality Risk amongst Nursing Home Residents Evacuated after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: A Retrospective Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Nomura, Shuhei ^a   Gilmour, Stuart ^a   Tsubokura, Masaharu ^b,c   Yoneoka, Daisuke ^a   Sugimoto, Amina ^a   Oikawa, Tomoyoshi ^c   Kami, Masahiro ^b   Shibuya, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Minamisoma City General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NURSING HOMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84875458106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060192     Document Type: Article

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