Injury registration in a developing country. A study based on patients' records from four hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Central African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 203-209

  Mutasingwa, D R ^a   Aaro L E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TANZANIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0038209383     PISSN: 00089176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/cajm.v47i8.8617     Document Type: Article

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