What Factors Influence the Production of Orthopaedic Research in East Africa? A Qualitative Analysis of Interviews

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 473, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2120-2130

  Elliott, Iain S ^a   Sonshine, Daniel B ^a,b   Akhavan, Sina ^a,b   Slade Shantz, Angelique ^a,d   Caldwell, Amber ^a   Slade Shantz, Jesse ^a,b   Gosselin, Richard A ^a,c   Coughlin, R Richard ^a,b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; COOPERATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; ORTHOPEDICS; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEACHER;

ADULT; AFRICA, EASTERN; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; ORTHOPEDICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC;

EID: 84939996876     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-015-4254-5     Document Type: Article

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