Building Critical Care Capacity in a Low-Income Country

Critical illness is common throughout the world and is associated with high costs of care and resource intensity. The Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created a sudden surge of critically ill patients, which in turn led to devastating effects on health care systems worldwide and more so...

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Autores principales: Kwizera, Arthur, Sendagire, Cornelius, Kamuntu, Yewande, Rutayisire, Meddy, Nakibuuka, Jane, Muwanguzi, Patience A., Alenyo-Ngabirano, Anne, Kyobe-Bosa, Henry, Olaro, Charles
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Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9507099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36162908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2022.07.003
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author Kwizera, Arthur
Sendagire, Cornelius
Kamuntu, Yewande
Rutayisire, Meddy
Nakibuuka, Jane
Muwanguzi, Patience A.
Alenyo-Ngabirano, Anne
Kyobe-Bosa, Henry
Olaro, Charles
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Sendagire, Cornelius
Kamuntu, Yewande
Rutayisire, Meddy
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Muwanguzi, Patience A.
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description Critical illness is common throughout the world and is associated with high costs of care and resource intensity. The Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created a sudden surge of critically ill patients, which in turn led to devastating effects on health care systems worldwide and more so in Africa. This narrative report describes how an attempt was made at bridging the existing gaps in quality of care for critically ill patients at national and regional levels for COVID and the postpandemic era in a low income country.
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spelling pubmed-95070992022-09-26 Building Critical Care Capacity in a Low-Income Country Kwizera, Arthur Sendagire, Cornelius Kamuntu, Yewande Rutayisire, Meddy Nakibuuka, Jane Muwanguzi, Patience A. Alenyo-Ngabirano, Anne Kyobe-Bosa, Henry Olaro, Charles Crit Care Clin Article Critical illness is common throughout the world and is associated with high costs of care and resource intensity. The Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created a sudden surge of critically ill patients, which in turn led to devastating effects on health care systems worldwide and more so in Africa. This narrative report describes how an attempt was made at bridging the existing gaps in quality of care for critically ill patients at national and regional levels for COVID and the postpandemic era in a low income country. Elsevier Inc. 2022-10 2022-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9507099/ /pubmed/36162908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2022.07.003 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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