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The burden of trauma at a district hospital in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa bears a disproportionate burden of mortality from trauma. District hospitals, although not trauma centres, play a critical role in the trauma care system by serving as frontline hospitals. However, the clinical characteristics of patients receiving trauma care in Afric...

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Autores principales: Zaidi, Ali A., Dixon, Julia, Lupez, Kathryn, De Vries, Shaheem, Wallis, Lee A., Ginde, Adit, Mould-Millman, Nee-Kofi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31073509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2019.01.007