Collecting injury surveillance data in low- and middle-income countries: The Cape Town Trauma Registry pilot

Global Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 874-889

  Schuurman, Nadine ^a   Cinnamon, Jonathan ^a   Matzopoulos, Richard ^b   Fawcett, Vanessa ^c,e   Nicol, Andrew ^d   Hameed, S Morad ^e  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

burden of injury; geographic information systems; injury data; injury prevention; injury surveillance; low and middle income countries; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE AND THE INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; ADULT; AGE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTRIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857069492     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2010.516268     Document Type: Article

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