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Reasons for patients with non-urgent conditions attending the emergency department in Kenya: A qualitative study

INTRODUCTION: Scant literature exists on the non-urgent use of emergency departments in Sub-Saharan Africa and its effects on the provision of effective emergency care services. With the surge in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases compounded by an already prevailing significant problem of c...

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Autores principales:	Matifary, Caroline R., Wachira, Benjamin, Nyanja, Njeri, Kathomi, Caroline
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2021
Materias:	Original Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7910189/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2020.09.004

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