Promoting major pediatric surgical care in a low-income country: A 4-year experience in Eritrea

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 760-766

  Calisti, Alessandro ^a   Belay, Kibreab ^b   Mazzoni, Guglielmo ^a   Fiocca, Guido ^a   Retrosi, Giuseppe ^a   Olivieri, Claudio ^a  

^a SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Orotta National Medical and Surgical Referral Hospital   (Eritrea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; ERITREA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ITALY; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRICS; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; TIME; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES; ERITREA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ITALY; MALE; MEDICAL MISSIONS, OFFICIAL; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PEDIATRICS; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 79952191663     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-011-0992-z     Document Type: Article

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