Hospital Stay as a Proxy Indicator for Severe Injury in Earthquakes: A Retrospective Analysis

• Lu-Ping Zhao,

  Affiliation People's Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan province, China

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• Martin Gerdin ,

  * E-mail: martin.gerdin@ki.se

  Affiliation Health System and Policy, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Lina Westman,

  Affiliations Health System and Policy, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Höglandssjukhuset, Eksjö, Sweden

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• Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes,

  Affiliation Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Institute of Health and Society, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Qi Wu,

  Affiliation People's Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan province, China

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• Barbara van den Oever,

  Affiliation Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Institute of Health and Society, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Liang Pan,

  Affiliation People's Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan province, China

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• Manuel Albela,

  Affiliation Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Institute of Health and Society, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Gao Chen,

  Affiliation People's Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan province, China

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• De-Sheng Zhang,

  Affiliation People's Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan province, China

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• Debarati Guha-Sapir,

  Affiliation Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Institute of Health and Society, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Johan von Schreeb

  Affiliation Health System and Policy, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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