Can focused trauma education initiatives reduce mortality or improve resource utilization in a low-resource setting?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 926-933

  Petroze, Robin T ^a   Byiringiro, Jean Claude ^b,c   Ntakiyiruta, Georges ^c   Briggs, Susan M ^d   Deckelbaum, Dan L ^e   Razek, Tarek ^e   Riviello, Robert ^f   Kyamanywa, Patrick ^c   Reid, Jennifer ^g   Sawyer, Robert G ^a   Calland, J Forrest ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali   (Rwanda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT CARE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NURSING EDUCATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; REGISTER; RESUSCITATION; RWANDA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT CARE; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REGISTRIES; RESUSCITATION; RWANDA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925500852     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-014-2899-y     Document Type: Article

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