Trauma in rural Kenya

Injury

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1228-1233

  Otieno, Tobias ^a   Woodfield, John C ^a   Bird, Peter ^a   Hill, Andrew G ^a,b  

^a AIC KIJABE HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fractures; Injury Severity Score; Kenya; Mortality; Road traffic crash; Surgery; Trauma; Unintentional injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BURN; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMATOTHORAX; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INJURY; KENYA; LIMB FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDICS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RURAL HEALTH; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 9244245773     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2004.03.013     Document Type: Article

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