Early hospital mortality among adult trauma patients significantly declined between 1998-2011: three single-centre cohorts from Mumbai, India.

BACKGROUND: Traumatic injury causes more than five million deaths each year of which about 90% occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Hospital trauma mortality has been significantly reduced in high-income countries, but to what extent similar results have been achieved in LMIC has not be...

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Main Authors: Martin Gerdin, Nobhojit Roy, Satish Dharap, Vineet Kumar, Monty Khajanchi, Göran Tomson, Li Felländer Tsai, Max Petzold, Johan von Schreeb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3940776?pdf=render