Quantifying the Disability from Congenital Anomalies Averted Through Pediatric Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Comparison of a Pediatric Surgical Unit in Kenya and Canada

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2198-2206

  Poenaru, D ^a,c   Pemberton, J ^a   Frankfurter, C ^a   Cameron, B H ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Myungsung Christian Medical Centre   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; KENYA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; NEWBORN; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CRYPTORCHIDISM; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84938993275     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-015-3103-8     Document Type: Article

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