Epidemiology of injury patients at Bugando Medical Centre, Tanzania

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 161-164

  Rutta, E ^a   Mutasingwa, D ^b   Ngallaba, S E ^c   Berege, Z A ^a  

^a Bugando Medical Centre   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Department of Community Health ^*  (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TANZANIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0035541935     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/eamj.v78i3.9085     Document Type: Article

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