Journal article
Injury hospitalizations before and after the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake
The American journal of emergency medicine, Vol.18(4), pp.361-366
2000
DOI: 10.1053/ajem.2000.7322
PMID: 10919519
Abstract
This study compared hospital-admitted injuries during the 14 days after the Northridge, California, earthquake of January 17, 1994, with hospital-admitted injuries during the preceding 16 days at the same facilities. Seventy-eight hospitals providing emergency care in Los Angeles County were screened; 16 were identified as having admitted at least one person for an earthquake-related injury. Retrospective chart reviews of hospitalized injuries for all of January 1994 were conducted at those facilities. The Northridge earthquake resulted in 138 injuries severe enough to require hospitalization. On the day of the earthquake, such injuries were 74% more frequent than usual overall. Some hospitals experienced as many as five times the number of injury admissions seen in the days preceding the event. The increase in caseload was short-lived, however; injury admissions tended to return to normal levels within two days after the quake. Previous reported estimates of the overall number of severe injuries caused by the Northridge earthquake appear to be exaggerated. (Am J Emerg Med 2000;18:361-366.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Injury hospitalizations before and after the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake
- Creators
- David L McArthurCorinne Peek-AsaJess F Kraus
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American journal of emergency medicine, Vol.18(4), pp.361-366
- DOI
- 10.1053/ajem.2000.7322
- PMID
- 10919519
- NLM abbreviation
- Am J Emerg Med
- ISSN
- 0735-6757
- eISSN
- 1532-8171
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2000
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Nursing; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984215141202771
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