An analysis of emergency care delays experienced by traumatic brain injury patients presenting to a regional referral hospital in a low-income country.
Armand ZimmermanSamara FoxRandi GriffinTaylor NelpErika Bárbara Abreu Fonseca ThomazMark MvungiBlandina Theophil MmbagaFrancis SakitaCharles J GerardoJoao Ricardo Nickenig VissociCatherine Ann StatonPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Time to care data is informative, easy to collect, and available in any setting. Our time to care data revealed significant constraints to non-personnel related hospital resources. Severely injured patients with the greatest need for care lacked access to medical imaging, oxygen, and surgery. Insights from our study and future studies will help optimize resource allocation in low-income hospitals thereby reducing delays to care and improving trauma outcomes in LMICs.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- palliative care
- traumatic brain injury
- quality improvement
- pain management
- affordable care act
- end stage renal disease
- public health
- emergency department
- primary care
- minimally invasive
- electronic health record
- chronic kidney disease
- type diabetes
- coronary artery disease
- big data
- adipose tissue
- mass spectrometry
- machine learning
- insulin resistance
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- skeletal muscle
- weight loss
- deep learning
- patient reported
- adverse drug
- acute care