Disaster Preparedness and Awareness of Patients on Hemodialysis after Hurricane Sandy
Author(s) -
Naoka Murakami,
Hira Babu Siktel,
David Lucido,
James F. Winchester,
Nikolas B. Harbord
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.10181014
Subject(s) - medicine , dialysis , poisson regression , emergency medicine , confidence interval , hemodialysis , triage , preparedness , quartile , emergency department , medical emergency , environmental health , nursing , population , political science , law
Patients with ESRD on dialysis live in a complex sociomedical situation and are dependent on technology and infrastructure, such as transportation, electricity, and water, to sustain their lives. Interruptions of this infrastructure by natural disasters can result in devastating outcomes.
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