Rwanda's Model Prehospital Emergency Care Service: A Two-year Review of Patient Demographics and Injury Patterns in Kigali

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 614-620

  Enumah, Samuel ^a   Scott, John W ^b   Maine, Rebecca ^c   Uwitonze, Eric ^d   D'Arc Nyinawankusi, Jeanne ^d   Riviello, Robert ^b,e   Byiringiro, Jean Claude ^f   Kabagema, Ignace ^d   Jayaraman, Sudha ^g  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Ministry of Health   (Rwanda)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali   (Rwanda)

^g VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; injury; prehospital; Rwanda; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RWANDA; TRENDS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RWANDA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84988443332     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X16000807     Document Type: Article

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