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Association between traumatic brain injury (TBI) patterns and mortality: a retrospective case-control study

2022-01-31

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<h4>Background: </h4> : Low and medium income countries (LMICs) such as Kenya experience nearly three times more cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI) compared to high income countries (HICs). This is primarily exacerbated by weak health systems especially at the pre-hospital care level. Generating local empirical evidence on TBI patterns and its influence on patient mortality outcomes is fundamental in informing...

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Literature Corpus work: 8dbae179-a5f9-522a-8ff3-8fc451e6c504
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.54658.2

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