Mortality in children under five receiving nonphysician clinician emergency care in Uganda

Pediatrics

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Rice, Brian ^a   Periyanayagam, Usha ^b   Chamberlain, Stacey ^c   Dreifuss, Bradley ^d   Hammerstedt, Heather ^e   Nelson, Sara ^f   Maling, Samuel ^g   Bisanzo, Mark ^h  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Idaho Emergency Physicians   (United States)

^f MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UGANDA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS;

CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 84960158527     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-3201     Document Type: Article

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