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Improving emergency care in Uganda

A low-cost emergency care initiative has halved deaths due to emergency conditions in two district hospitals in Uganda. The intervention is being scaled up nationally. Gary Humphreys reports.

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Health Organization 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6747037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31551626
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.19.020519
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spelling pubmed-67470372019-09-24 Improving emergency care in Uganda Bull World Health Organ News A low-cost emergency care initiative has halved deaths due to emergency conditions in two district hospitals in Uganda. The intervention is being scaled up nationally. Gary Humphreys reports. World Health Organization 2019-05-01 2019-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6747037/ /pubmed/31551626 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.19.020519 Text en (c) 2019 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6747037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31551626
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.19.020519