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- 2019
The burden of trauma at a district hospital in the Western Cape Province of South AfricaDOI: 10.1016/j.afjem.2019.01.007 Keywords: Emergency medical services, Non-accidental injury, Emergency medicine, Trauma system, Unintentional injury Abstract: 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
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