A 3 year prospective audit of burns patients treated at the Western Regional Hospital of Nepal

Burns

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 129-133

  Liu, E H ^a   Khatri, B ^a   Shakya, Y M ^a   Richard, B M ^a,b  

^a Western Regional Hospital   (Nepal)

^b International Nepal Fellowship   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Audit; Ethics; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BURN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICAL BURN; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ELECTRIC BURN; FEMALE; FIRE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOME ACCIDENT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEPAL; PERITONITIS; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032029194     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(97)00103-4     Document Type: Article

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