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Surgery. 1 May 2015; Volume 157 (Issue 5); DOI:10.1016/j.surg.2014.12.021
Wong EG, Dominguez LB, Trelles M, Ayobi S, Hazraty K, et al.
Surgery. 1 May 2015; Volume 157 (Issue 5); DOI:10.1016/j.surg.2014.12.021
Conflicts and disasters remain prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, and injury remains a leading cause of death worldwide. The objective of this study was to describe the operative procedures performed for injury-related pathologies at facilities supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to guide the planning of future responses.
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BMC Health Serv Res. 23 August 2017; Volume 17 (Issue 1); DOI:10.1186/s12913-017-2541-4
Massaut J, Valles P, Ghismonde A, Jacques CJ, Louis LP, et al.
BMC Health Serv Res. 23 August 2017; Volume 17 (Issue 1); DOI:10.1186/s12913-017-2541-4
The South African Triage Scale (SATS) was developed to facilitate patient triage in emergency departments (EDs) and is used by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in low-resource environments. The aim was to determine if SATS data, reason for admission, and patient age can be used to develop and validate a model predicting the in-hospital risk of death in emergency surgical centers and to compare the model's discriminative power with that of the four SATS categories alone.