Trauma admissions to the Intensive care unit at a reference hospital in Northwestern Tanzania
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
- Vol. 19 (1) , 61
Abstract
Major trauma has been reported to be a major cause of hospitalization and intensive care utilization worldwide and consumes a significant amount of the health care budget. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics and treatment outcome of major trauma patients admitted into our ICU and to identify predictors of outcome.Keywords
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