Mortality Related to Acute Illness and Injury in Rural Uganda: Task Shifting to Improve Outcomes

Stacey Chamberlain; Uwe Stolz; Bradley Dreifuss; Sara W. Nelson; Heather Hammerstedt; Jovita Andinda; Samuel Maling; Mark Bisanzo

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122559

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Mortality Related to Acute Illness and Injury in Rural Uganda: Task Shifting to Improve Outcomes

Stacey Chamberlain ,

* E-mail: chamberlain.stacey@gmail.com

Affiliations Global Emergency Care Collaborative, Massachusetts, United States of America and Uganda, Department of Emergency Medicine and Center for Global Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Uwe Stolz,

Affiliations Global Emergency Care Collaborative, Massachusetts, United States of America and Uganda, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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Bradley Dreifuss,

Affiliations Global Emergency Care Collaborative, Massachusetts, United States of America and Uganda, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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Sara W. Nelson,

Affiliations Global Emergency Care Collaborative, Massachusetts, United States of America and Uganda, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, United States of America
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Heather Hammerstedt,

Affiliations Global Emergency Care Collaborative, Massachusetts, United States of America and Uganda, Idaho Emergency Physicians, Boise, Idaho, United States of America
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Jovita Andinda,

Affiliations Global Emergency Care Collaborative, Massachusetts, United States of America and Uganda, Karoli Lwanga Hospital, Nyakibale, Uganda
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Samuel Maling,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
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Mark Bisanzo

Affiliations Global Emergency Care Collaborative, Massachusetts, United States of America and Uganda, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Mortality Related to Acute Illness and Injury in Rural Uganda: Task Shifting to Improve Outcomes

Stacey Chamberlain,
Uwe Stolz,
Bradley Dreifuss,
Sara W. Nelson,
Heather Hammerstedt,
Jovita Andinda,
Samuel Maling,
Mark Bisanzo

Published: April 7, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122559

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