Hospital staff shortage after the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan-an earthquake, tsunamis, and nuclear power plant accident: A case of the Soso district

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Ochi, Sae ^a   Tsubokura, Masaharu ^a   Kato, Shigeaki ^a   Iwamoto, Shuichi ^b   Ogata, Shinichi ^c   Morita, Tomohiro ^a   Hori, Arinobu ^d   Oikawa, Tomoyoshi ^e   Kikuchi, Antoku ^f   Watanabe, Zenjiro ^g   Kanazawa, Yukio ^e   Kumakawa, Hiromi ^h   Kuma, Yoshinobu ^h   Kumakura, Tetsuo ^d   Inomata, Yoshimitsu ⁱ   Kami, Masahiro ^j   Shineha, Ryuzaburo ^a   Saito, Yasutoshi ^k  

^a Soma Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Soso Public Health Institute   (Japan)

^d Hibarigaoka Hospital   (Japan)

^e MINAMISOMA MUNICIPAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Onoda Hospital   (Japan)

^g Kashima Kosei Hospital   (Japan)

^h Soma Public Hospital   (Japan)

ⁱ Ohmachi Hospital   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^k Hirata Central Hospital Research institute of radiation safety for disaster recovery support   (Japan)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NURSE; TSUNAMI; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTOR; WORKLOAD;

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; TIME FACTORS; TSUNAMIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84992715423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164952     Document Type: Article

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