%0 Journal Article
%T The burden of trauma at a district hospital in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
%A Adit Ginde
%A Ali A. Zaidi
%A Julia Dixon
%A Kathryn Lupez
%A Lee A. Wallis
%A Shaheem De Vries
%J Archive of "African Journal of Emergency Medicine".
%D 2019
%R 10.1016/j.afjem.2019.01.007
%X Sub-Saharan Africa bears a disproportionate burden of mortality from trauma. District hospitals, although not trauma centres, play a critical role in the trauma care system by serving as frontline hospitals. However, the clinical characteristics of patients receiving trauma care in African district hospitals remains under-described and is a barrier to trauma care system development. We aim to describe the burden of trauma at district hospitals by analysing trauma patients at a prototypical district hospital emergency centre
%K Emergency medical services
%K Non-accidental injury
%K Emergency medicine
%K Trauma system
%K Unintentional injury
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497867/