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Excess Out-Of-Hospital Mortality and Declining Oxygen Saturation: The Sentinel Role of EMS Data in the COVID-19 Crisis in Tijuana, Mexico
2020-05-18
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<h4>Objective: </h4> Emergency medical services (EMS) may serve as a key source of real-time data about the evolving health of COVID-19 affected populations, especially in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) with less rapid and reliable vital statistic registration systems. Although official COVID-19 statistics in Mexico report almost exclusively in-hospital mortality events, excess out-of-hospital mortality h...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3c60d243-ca6a-520d-bcd4-c8c43740e688
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.05.13.20098186
