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Hospitalized for poverty: orthopaedic discharge delays due to financial hardship in a tertiary hospital in Northern Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal injury contributes significantly to the burden of disease in Tanzania and other LMICs. For hospitals to cope financially with this burden, they often mandate that patients pay their entire hospital bill before leaving the hospital. This creates a phenomenon of patients wh...
Autores principales: | Obayemi, Joy E., Card, Elizabeth B., Shirima, Octavian, Premkumar, Ajay, Massawe, Honest, Sheth, Neil P. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9438232/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36050802 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41256-022-00265-z |
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