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Emergency care capacity in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a service evaluation

BACKGROUND: There is an increasing global recognition of the role of emergency medical services in improving population health. Emergency medical services remain underdeveloped in many low income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. There have been no previous evaluations of specialist eme...

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Autores principales:	Coyle, Rachel M, Harrison, Hooi-Ling
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25644792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-015-0027-4

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