District-level surgery in Uganda: Indications, interventions and perioperative mortality

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-16

  Löfgren, Jenny ^a   Kadobera, Daniel ^b   Forsberg, Birger C ^c   Mulowooza, Jude ^d   Wladis, Andreas ^c   Nordin, Pär ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Iganga'Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site   (Uganda)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Iganga Hospital   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MINOR SURGERY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UGANDA; ADOLESCENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938677544     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2015.03.022     Document Type: Article

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