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Reductions in Inpatient Mortality following Interventions to Improve Emergency Hospital Care in Freetown, Sierra Leone

BACKGROUND: The demand for high quality hospital care for children in low resource countries is not being met. This paper describes a number of strategies to improve emergency care at a children's hospital and evaluates the impact of these on inpatient mortality. In addition, the cost-effective...

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Autores principales:	Clark, Matthew, Spry, Emily, Daoh, Kisito, Baion, David, Skordis-Worrall, Jolene
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2012
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23028427 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041458

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