Epidemiology of fractures and their treatment in Malawi: Results of a multicentre prospective registry study to guide orthopaedic care planning

• Alexander Thomas Schade ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alexander.schade@lstmed.ac.uk

  Affiliations Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7640-9812

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• Foster Mbowuwa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software

  Affiliation AO-Alliance Foundation, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Paul Chidothi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software

  Affiliation AO-Alliance Foundation, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Peter MacPherson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Blantyre, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0329-9613

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• Simon Matthew Graham,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Population Health Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Liverpool University Teaching Hospital Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Claude Martin Jr.,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AO-Alliance Foundation, Blantyre, Malawi

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• William James Harrison,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations AO-Alliance Foundation, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Liverpool University Teaching Hospital Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Linda Chokotho

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations AO-Alliance Foundation, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

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