Use of external fixators for open tibial injuries in the rural third world: Panacea of the poor?

Injury

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 150-159

  Padhi, Nihar R ^a   Padhi, Poonam ^a  

^a PADHAR HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Developing world; Diaphyseal, diaphyseo metaphyseal; External fixators; Fixation operative; Hospital rural; Outcomes cost effectiveness; Trauma compound tibial fractures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, OPEN; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845940720     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.08.053     Document Type: Article

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