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First Things First: Effectiveness and Scalability of a Basic Prehospital Trauma Care Program for Lay First-Responders in Kampala, Uganda
BACKGROUND: We previously showed that in the absence of a formal emergency system, lay people face a heavy burden of injuries in Kampala, Uganda, and we demonstrated the feasibility of a basic prehospital trauma course for lay people. This study tests the effectiveness of this course and estimates t...
Autores principales: | Jayaraman, Sudha, Mabweijano, Jacqueline R., Lipnick, Michael S., Caldwell, Nolan, Miyamoto, Justin, Wangoda, Robert, Mijumbi, Cephas, Hsia, Renee, Dicker, Rochelle, Ozgediz, Doruk |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2736400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19759831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006955 |
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