Trauma in Tanzania: Researching injury in a low-resource setting

McGill Journal of Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 27-33

  Mukhopadhyay, Baijayanta ^a   Boniface, Respicious ^b   Razek, Tarek ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Data quality; Global health; Research capacity; Surgery; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856320568     PISSN: 1201026X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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