Rationing salt water - Disaster planning and daily care delivery

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 1573-1576

  Hick, John L ^a   Hanfling, Dan ^b,d   Courtney, Brooke ^e,f   Lurie, Nicole ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^e BETTY AND GUY BEATTY CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH   (United States)

^f CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS USED IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE;

DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG CONTROL; DRUG COST; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY CARE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84899091624     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1401833     Document Type: Article

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