The impact of a large-scale natural disaster on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: The aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Respiratory Investigation

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-23

  Kobayashi, Seiichi ^a   Hanagama, Masakazu ^a   Yamanda, Shinsuke ^a   Satoh, Hikari ^a   Tokuda, Shinsaku ^a,b   Kobayashi, Masakazu ^a   Ueda, Shinsaku ^a   Suzuki, Satoshi ^a   Yanai, Masaru ^a  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO FIRST RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Disaster; Exacerbation; Great East Japan Earthquake

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; LONG ACTING DRUG; MACROLIDE; OXYGEN; PREDNISOLONE; THEOPHYLLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISASTER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL DISASTER; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PULSE OXIMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876707732     PISSN: 22125345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resinv.2012.10.004     Document Type: Article

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