title: The emergency evacuation of a geriatrics hospital in Toxteth.
abstract: The evacuation of a 102-bed geriatrics hospital in the middle of the night and from the centre of a riot in Toxteth, Liverpool, is described, together with its effect on the patients involved. No increase in the mortality rate occurred during the six weeks following the evacuation, but a significant increase in morbidity was found. Specific recommendations are made for action to be taken should other city centre geriatrics hospitals need to be evacuated in similar circumstances.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D002960:Civil Disorders; D003221:Confusion / Q000523:psychology; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004739:England; D005853:Geriatrics; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D011595:Psychomotor Agitation / Q000523:psychology; D013909:Thorax; D014187:Transportation of Patients