A systematic review of burn injuries in low- and middle-income countries: Epidemiology in the WHO-defined African Region

INTRODUCTION: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), burns result in the loss of approximately 18 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) and more than 250,000 deaths each year, more than 90% of which are in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The epidemiology of these injuri...

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Autores principales: Rybarczyk, Megan M., Schafer, Jesse M., Elm, Courtney M., Sarvepalli, Shashank, Vaswani, Pavan A., Balhara, Kamna S., Carlson, Lucas C., Jacquet, Gabrielle A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2017
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6234151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30456103
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2017.01.006

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