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Referral pathways, ETAT triage acuity, and inpatient outcomes among children presenting to a national tertiary paediatric emergency unit in Ghana: a prospective cohort study

2026-06-22

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Emergency referral systems in sub-Saharan Africa are fragmented, and children reaching tertiary facilities through different referral pathways often arrive in advanced clinical states. Prospective data simultaneously characterising referral patterns, triage acuity at presentation, diagnostic case mix, and inpatient mortality at a national tertiary paediatric emergency unit are lacking from West...

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Literature Corpus work: 7f670e14-b68c-58c9-a44f-74b81c1bc4c9
DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.17.26355891

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