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No implant, no solution, lost cases to surgery: orthopedic trauma triage for surgery in an NGO hospital in Sierra Leone

INTRODUCTION: In low-income countries (LIC), international surgeons face the fact that there are patients they cannot treat. The goal of this study was to identify and analyze patients lost to treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We analyzed retrospectively the data of 282 trauma victims from a non-gove...

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Autores principales:	Wichlas, F., Hofmann, V., Moursy, M., Strada, G., Deininger, C.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
Materias:	Trauma Surgery
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7811951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33459821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00402-020-03747-2

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