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"She's gone now." A mixed methods analysis of the experiences and perceptions around the deaths of children who died unexpectedly in health care facilities in Cape Town, South Africa

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A Smartphone App and Cloud-Based Consultation System for Burn Injury Emergency Care

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A dual language policy for the African Journal of Emergency Medicine

A prehospital randomised controlled trial in South Africa: Challenges and lessons learnt

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

A retrospective evaluation of the impact of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal transport service on transport times within an urban setting

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A review of primary and secondary burn services in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 19 September 2015

A roadmap for the implementation of mHealth innovations for image-based diagnostic support in clinical and public-health settings: a focus on front-line health workers and health-system organizations.

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A smartphone-based consultation system for acute burns - methodological challenges related to follow-up of the system

scientific article published on June 2017

A strategy to implement and support pre-hospital emergency medical systems in developing, resource-constrained areas of South Africa

scientific article published on 20 August 2012

AFEM consensus conference 2013 summary: Emergency care in Africa – Where are we now?

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Access to out-of-hospital emergency care in Africa: Consensus conference recommendations

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Accuracy of acute burns diagnosis made using smartphones and tablets: a questionnaire-based study among medical experts

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Adapting the emergency first aid responder course for Zambia through curriculum mapping and blueprinting

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Addressing African acute care needs through consensus-building

Adherence to Referral Criteria at Admission and Patient Management at a Specialized Burns Centre: The Case of the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa

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Admission factors associated with the in-hospital mortality of burns patients in resource-constrained settings: A two-year retrospective investigation in a South African adult burns centre

scientific article published on 28 March 2019

Adrenaline and amiodarone dosages in resuscitation: rectifying misinformation.

scientific article published on 03 September 2013

Advanced life support courses in Africa: Certification, availability and perceptions

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Advancing research on emergency care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: ensuring high-quality care delivery systems

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Advancing research on the economic value of emergency care

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Africa should be taking responsibility for emergency medicine in Africa

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Africa's first emergency medicine training program at the University of Cape Town/Stellenbosch University: history, progress, and lessons learned

scientific article published in August 2011

African Federation for Emergency Medicine resources for managing COVID-19 in low resourced settings

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

Age related reference ranges of respiratory rate and heart rate for children in South Africa

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An analysis of the clinical practice of emergency medicine in public emergency departments in Kenya

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Analysis of risk factors, presentation, and in-hospital events of very young patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 5 February 2017

Applying the lessons of maternal mortality reduction to global emergency health.

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Assessment of hospital disaster preparedness for the 2010 FIFA World Cup using an internet-based, long-distance tabletop drill

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Assessment of hospital-based adult triage at emergency receiving areas in hospitals in Northern Uganda

scientific article published in June 2017

Assessment of routine laboratory screening of adult psychiatric patients presenting to an emergency centre in Cape Town

scientific article published on 28 November 2011

Asthma guidelines: why aminophylline?

scientific article published in May 2013

Author reply: To PMID 23522699.

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Barriers and facilitators to implementing coronary care networks in South Africa: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Barriers and facilitators to implementing trauma registries in low- and middle-income countries: Qualitative experiences from Tanzania

scientific article published on 11 July 2020

COVID-19 Severity Scoring Tool for low resourced settings

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Can We Trust the Use of Smartphone Cameras in Clinical Practice? Laypeople Assessment of Their Image Quality

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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation by Emergency Medical Services in South Africa: Barriers to achieving high quality performance

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Caregivers' Experiences of Pathways to Care for Seriously Ill Children in Cape Town, South Africa: A Qualitative Investigation

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Clinical and historical features associated with severe COVID-19 infection: a systematic review

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Clinical teams' experiences of crowding in public emergency centres in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Community-based perceptions of emergency care in Zambian communities lacking formalised emergency medicine systems

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Comparison of two training programmes on paramedic-delivered CPR performance

scientific article

Complications of tube thoracostomy for chest trauma

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Considerations for service delivery for emergency care in low resource settings

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Cost-effectiveness and return on investment of protecting health workers in low- and middle-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 09 October 2020

Cost-effectiveness of emergency care interventions in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Cross-sectional evaluation of emergency care capacity at public hospitals in Zambia

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Defining and improving the role of emergency medical services in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 04 February 2016

Defining quality indicators for emergency care delivery: findings of an expert consensus process by emergency care practitioners in Africa.

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Developing a reference standard for assessing paediatric triage scales in resource poor settings

Developing emergency medical dispatch systems in Africa – Recommendations of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine/International Academies of Emergency Dispatch Working Group

Developing prehospital clinical practice guidelines for resource limited settings: why re-invent the wheel?

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Development and pilot implementation of a standardised trauma documentation form to inform a national trauma registry in a low-resource setting: lessons from Tanzania

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Development of a Mass-Gathering Medical Resource Matrix for a Developing World Scenario

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Development of a mass-gathering medical resource matrix for a developing world scenario

scientific article published on November 2010

Disaster preparedness and response capacity of regional hospitals in Tanzania: a descriptive cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 6 November 2018

Dispatcher Triage Accuracy in the Western Cape Government Emergency Medical Services System, Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Door-to-needle time for administration of fibrinolytics in acute myocardial infarction in Cape Town

scientific article published on 07 March 2012

ECG interpretation skills of South African Emergency Medicine residents

scientific article published on 28 October 2010

Effect of spinal immobilization on heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate.

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

Electronic Medical Records in low to middle income countries: The case of Khayelitsha Hospital, South Africa

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Emergency care and health systems: consensus-based recommendations and future research priorities.

scientific article published on December 2013

Emergency care in 59 low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

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Emergency care in sub-Saharan Africa: Results of a consensus conference

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Emergency centre investigation of first-onset seizures in adults in the Western Cape, South Africa.

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

Emergency centres lack defibrillator knowledge ⬇️

scientific article published on July 5, 2010

Emergency department procedural sedation practice in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Emergency healthcare needs in the Lavender Hill suburb of Cape Town, South Africa: a cross-sectional, community-based household survey

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Emergency medicine in Paarl, South Africa: a cross-sectional descriptive study

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Emergency medicine in the developing world: a Delphi study

scientific article published in July 2010

Emergency medicine, an opportunity to re-imagine a speciality in Africa

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Essential care of critical illness must not be forgotten in the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Essential medicines for emergency care in Africa

scientific article published on 7 April 2018

Evaluating emergency care capacity in Africa: an iterative, multicountry refinement of the Emergency Care Assessment Tool

article published in 2018

Evaluating the construct of triage acuity against a set of reference vignettes developed via modified Delphi method

scientific article published on 24 April 2013

Exposure to daily trauma: The experiences and coping mechanism of Emergency Medical Personnel. A cross-sectional study

article by Llizane Minnie et al published March 2015 in African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Fifteen years of emergency medicine literature in Africa: A scoping review

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Gender differences in burns: A study from emergency centres in the Western Cape, South Africa

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Gender-specific differences and burn outcome

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Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review, Tanzania and adopting delegates

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Global Health Mentoring Toolkits: A Scoping Review Relevant for Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions

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Global emergency care clinical practice guidelines: A landscape analysis

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Governing access to emergency care in Africa

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Guest Editorial

scientific article published on 09 March 2010

Guideline for the assessment of trauma centres for South Africa

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Haiti Disaster Tourism—A Medical Shame

scholarly article by Daniël J. Van Hoving et al published June 2010 in Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Haiti disaster tourism--a medical shame

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Haiti: The South African perspective ⬇️

scientific article published on July 26, 2010

Harnessing inter-disciplinary collaboration to improve emergency care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): results of research prioritisation setting exercise

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Heart rate and systolic blood pressure in patients with minor to moderate, non-haemorrhagic injury versus normal controls.

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Hemoglobin glutamer-250 (bovine) in South Africa: consensus usage guidelines from clinician experts who have treated patients

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

Hospital disaster planning in the Western cape, South Africa.

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Hospital proximity does not guarantee access to emergency care

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

ILCOR's first foray into low resource settings

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Identification of performance indicators for emergency centres in South Africa: results of a Delphi study

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Identifying barriers for out of hospital emergency care in low and low-middle income countries: a systematic review

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Identifying quality indicators for prehospital emergency care services in the low to middle income setting: The South African perspective

scientific article published on 06 August 2019

Image-based medical expert teleconsultation in acute care of injuries. A systematic review of effects on information accuracy, diagnostic validity, clinical outcome, and user satisfaction

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Image-based teleconsultation using smartphones or tablets: qualitative assessment of medical experts

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Injury severity in relation to seatbelt use in Cape Town, South Africa: a pilot study.

scientific article published on 2 June 2014

Integrating mHealth at point of care in low- and middle-income settings: the system perspective

scientific article published on June 2017

Inter-rater and intrarater reliability of the South African Triage Scale in low-resource settings of Haiti and Afghanistan.

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Inter-rater reliability of the South African Triage Scale: Assessing two different cadres of health care workers in a real time environment

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Investigating the effects of under-triage by existing major incident triage tools.

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Is the South African Triage Scale valid for use in Afghanistan, Haiti and Sierra Leone?

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Is the current South African emergency medicine curriculum fit for purpose? An emergency medicine practice analysis.

scientific article published on 23 October 2010

Knowing and doing; negotiating resource constraints through research

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Knowledge, attitude and practices of clinical quality and performance assessment among emergency medical services personnel in South Africa: A mixed methods study

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Learning and retention of emergency first aid skills in a violent, developing South African township.

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Limitations in validating emergency department triage scales

scientific article published on July 2007

Major incident triage: A consensus based definition of the essential life-saving interventions during the definitive care phase of a major incident

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Major incident triage: Derivation and comparative analysis of the Modified Physiological Triage Tool (MPTT).

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Medical support on a Himalayan expedition.

scientific article published in June 2001

Meeting national response time targets for priority 1 incidents in an urban emergency medical services system in South Africa: More ambulances won't help

scientific article published on 19 September 2015

Multi-Method Vs Single Method Appraisal of Clinical Quality Indicators for the Emergency Medical Services

scientific article published on 24 December 2020

Operational demands on pre-hospital emergency care for burn injuries in a middle-income setting: a study in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Operationalising emergency care delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: consensus-based recommendations for healthcare facilities

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Outcomes by Mode of Transport of ST Elevation MI Patients in the United Arab Emirates

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Partnerships in emergency care: Summary proceedings from the 2014 African Conference on Emergency Medicine

Pathways to Care for Critically Ill or Injured Children: A Cohort Study from First Presentation to Healthcare Services through to Admission to Intensive Care or Death

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Patient satisfaction with emergency departments

scientific article published on 01 June 2015

Patterns of seatbelt use in different socioeconomic communities in the Cape Town Metropole, South Africa

scientific article published on 6 August 2013

Pepper soup for the emergency care workers’ soul (a remedy for the annual end of year festive paradigm)

Perceptions of emergency care in Kenyan communities lacking access to formalised emergency medical systems: a qualitative study

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Perceptions of graduates from Africa's first emergency medicine training program at the University of Cape Town/Stellenbosch University

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Perceptions of health providers towards the use of standardised trauma form in managing trauma patients: a qualitative study from Tanzania

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Percutaneous coronary intervention still not accessible for many South Africans

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

Photograph-based diagnosis of burns in patients with dark-skin types: the importance of case and assessor characteristics

scientific article published on 21 February 2015

Physician perceptions and recommendations about pre-hospital emergency medical services for patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction in Abu Dhabi

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Poor return on investment: investigating the barriers that cause low credentialing yields in a resource-limited clinical ultrasound training programme

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Pre-hospital intercostal chest drains in South Africa: A modified Delphi study.

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Prehospital research in sub-saharan Africa: establishing research tenets

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Prioritising the care of critically ill children: a pilot study using SCREEN reduces clinic waiting times.

scientific article published on April 2016

Prioritizing the Care of Critically Ill Children in South Africa: How Does SCREEN Perform Against Other Triage Tools?

scientific article published on 21 March 2017

Procedure competence versus number performed: a survey of graduate emergency medicine specialists in a developing nation.

scientific article published on 21 October 2011

Professional needs of young Emergency Medicine specialists in Africa: Results of a South Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Ghana survey

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Quality Indicators for Evaluating Prehospital Emergency Care: A Scoping Review.

scientific article published on 10 December 2017

Rabies: a review of UK management

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Reconceptualizing the role of emergency care in the context of global healthcare delivery

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Reliability and accuracy of the South African Triage Scale when used by nurses in the emergency department of Timergara Hospital, Pakistan

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Reliability and validity of emergency department triage tools in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

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Reliability and validity of pediatric triage tools evaluated in Low resource settings: a systematic review

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SCREEN: A simple layperson administered screening algorithm in low resource international settings significantly reduces waiting time for critically ill children in primary healthcare clinics

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

START is not the best triage strategy.

scientific article published in December 2002

Self assessment exercises--legal and ethical dilemmas in medicine

scientific article published in June 2004

Self-assessment questions in the management of ophthalmic emergencies.

scientific article published on December 2004

Sepsis as a cause of rising health care casualties in Africa

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South African Burn Society burn stabilisation protocol.

scientific article published in August 2007

South African ischaemic stroke guideline, 2010 ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

State of emergency medicine in South Africa

scientific article published on 17 June 2008

Strengthening Health Systems to Provide Emergency Care

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

Strengthening emergency care systems to serve the injured

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Submission for publication made easy

article by Stevan R. Bruijns & Lee A. Wallis published June 2013 in African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Taking Acute Care Worldwide: Pragmatic lessons from the HIV pandemic

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Targeting ethical considerations tied to image-based mobile health diagnostic support specific to clinicians in low-resource settings: the Brocher proposition

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Targeting health visitor care: lessons from Starting Well

scientific article published on 2 May 2008

Targeting the HIV Epidemic in South Africa: The Need for Testing and Linkage to Care in Emergency Departments

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Taxi driver training in Madagascar: the first step in developing a functioning prehospital emergency care system ⬇️

scientific article published on September 2, 2010

Teleconsultation Using Mobile Phones for Diagnosis and Acute Care of Burn Injuries Among Emergency Physicians: Mixed-Methods Study

The Kampala Trauma Score has poor diagnostic accuracy for most emergency presentations

scientific article published on 7 August 2017

The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

The Malawi trauma score should not be recommended for prehospital or emergency department trauma triage

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

The Princess Marina Hospital accident and emergency triage scale provides highly reliable triage acuity ratings.

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The Sendai Framework and emergency care

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

The South African Triage Scale (adult version) provides reliable acuity ratings

scientific article published on 17 September 2011

The South African triage scale (adult version) provides valid acuity ratings when used by doctors and enrolled nursing assistants

The State of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems in Africa

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

The aetiology of adult burns in the Western Cape, South Africa

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The burden of trauma at a district hospital in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

scientific article published on 19 January 2019

The burden of trauma in Tanzania: Analysis of prospective trauma registry data at regional hospitals in Tanzania

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

The civilian validation of the Modified Physiological Triage Tool (MPTT): an evidence-based approach to primary major incident triage

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The clinical presentation, utilization, and outcome of individuals with sickle cell anaemia presenting to urban emergency department of a tertiary hospital in Tanzania

scholarly article by Hendry Robert Sawe et al published 2018 in BMC hematology

The efficacy and value of emergency medicine: a supportive literature review

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The emergency first aid responder system model: using community members to assist life-threatening emergencies in violent, developing areas of need

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

The epidemiology of major incidents in the Western Cape Province, South Africa.

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The impact of backboard size and orientation on sternum-to-spine compression depth and compression stiffness in a manikin study of CPR using two mattress types.

scientific article published on 15 April 2011

The need for a usable assessment tool to analyse the efficacy of emergency care systems in developing countries: proposal to use the TEWS methodology

scientific article published on 20 December 2011

The proportion of South Africans living within 60 and 120 minutes of a percutaneous coronary intervention facility.

scientific article published in January 2018

The psychological effects of widespread emergencies and a first responder training course on a violent, developing community

The rise of the frequent attender

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The value of the difference between ED and prehospital vital signs in predicting outcome in trauma

scientific article published on 24 April 2013

Time to standardise levels of care amongst Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care providers in Africa

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Towards developing a consensus assessment framework for global emergency medicine fellowships

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Trauma burden in Tanzania: a one-day survey of all district and regional public hospitals

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

Trauma care and capture rate of variables of World Health Organisation data set for injury at regional hospitals in Tanzania: first steps to a national trauma registry

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Trauma care in South Africa - a call to arms.

scientific article published in March 2011

Triage in emergency departments

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Triage--keep it simple, swift, safe and scientific

article by Michele Twomey et al published May 2013 in South African Medical Journal

Triage-weighted kappa: a more appropriate triage reliability measure

Understanding quality systems in the South African prehospital emergency medical services: a multiple exploratory case study

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Use of Predictive Modeling to Plan for Special Event Medical Care During Mass Gathering Events

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Utilizations and Perceptions of Emergency Medical Services by Patients with ST-Segments Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction in Abu Dhabi: A Multicenter Study

scientific article published on April 2016

Validation of a modified Medical Resource Model for mass gatherings

scientific article published on 26 October 2012

Validation of weight estimation by age and length based methods in the Western Cape, South Africa population

scientific article published on October 13, 2010

Vital signs during and following ambulance transfer

scientific article published on April 2014

Warning scores in triage – Is there any point?

article published in 2012

Westgate Shootings: An Emergency Department Approach to a Mass-casualty Incident.

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Workload and casemix in Cape Town emergency departments.

scientific article published in December 2007

m-Health for Burn Injury Consultations in a Low-Resource Setting: An Acceptability Study Among Health Care Providers

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

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