Rates of surgical deaths and infections at district hospitals in Malawi and Zambia: a prospective multicentre cohort study

Objective This paper reports perioperative mortality and postoperative infection rates of surgical patients who underwent operations at district-level hospitals in Malawi and Zambia, and the associations of these outcomes with patient characteristics based on routinely available data.Design Prospect...

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Published in:	BMJ Open
Main Authors:	Eric Borgstein, Chiara Pittalis, Leon Bijlmakers, Mweene Cheelo, Gerald Mwapasa, John Kachimba, Ruairí Brugha, Jakub Gajewski, Mengyang Zhang, Kristen Waterman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMJ Publishing Group 2021-12-01
Online Access:	https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/12/e049126.full

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