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Evaluating the burden of head injuries on a rural emergency department in South Africa

BACKGROUND: Head injuries place a significant burden on the emergency department (ED) workload. This is prominent in low-middle income countries (LMICs), which have low resourced health systems and a skewed burden compared to global data. A large paucity of data exists among LMICs, therefore limitin...

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Autores principales:	Ramdheen, Sannya, Naicker, Bavani
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	AOSIS 2021
Materias:	Original Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8603172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34797089 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/safp.v63i1.5327

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