11 results match your criteria: "Injury Control Centre[Affiliation]"

Background: Trauma significantly impacts Tanzanian healthcare. Lacking standardized hospital-based minimal trauma data sets places further challenges for policymakers. In other resource-limited countries, implementing trauma systems and registries has reduced injury mortalities.

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Background: Digitizing surgical data infrastructure is critical for policymakers to make informed decisions. The implementation of the first web-based operating theater (OT) recordings at Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute (MOI) represents significant advancements in data management for Tanzania. This study aims to share post-platform implementation outcomes, challenges, and insights gained offering guidance to settings facing similar data repository challenges.

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Background: In Tanzania, inadequate infrastructures and shortages of trauma-response training exacerbate trauma-related fatalities. McGill University's Centre for Global Surgery introduced the Trauma and Disaster Team Response course (TDTR) to address these challenges. This study assesses the impact of simulation-based TDTR training on care providers' knowledge/skills and healthcare processes to enhance patient outcomes.

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Introduction: Traumatic brain Injuries represents a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and road traffic crashes accounts for a significant proportion of these injuries. However, access to neurosurgical care is poor in low income countries like Tanzania. The aim of this study was to assess the management and outcome of Traumatic brain injury patients at a tertiary level health facility in Tanzania.

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Introduction: Injuries represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and road traffic crashes accounts for a significant proportion of these injuries. Tanzania is among the countries with high rates of road traffic crashes. The aim of this study was to determine the pattern, associated factors and management of road traffic injury patients in Tanzania.

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INJURY EXPERIENCE IN TANZANIA - NEED FOR INTERVENTION.

East Afr Med J

May 2013

Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute (MOI), Injury Control Centre Tanzania (ICCT), Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

Objective: To determine distribution of injuries and factors associated with mortality in six hospitals of Tanzania mainland.

Design: A Cross-Sectional hospital based study.

Setting: Data were collected from casualty departments of Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute, Morogoro, Mtwara, Kigoma, Musoma regional hospitals and Korogwe district hospital.

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Introduction: Work related injuries are common, and the mining industry accounts for a significant proportion of these injuries. Tanzania is among the countries with high rates of mining injuries, nevertheless pre-hospital care is almost non existant and health care service deliveries are poor. This study sought to identify factors associated with injuries and fatalities among miners in Mererani, Tanzania.

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Background: Traffic injuries are an important problem in low income countries. In Uganda road traffic is the largest single cause of injury in Kampala; pedestrians, and children are most affected. Pedestrian injury affects school children in Uganda.

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Objectives: To describe the pedestrian population, their use of an overpass, and to assess pedestrian perceptions and responses to the risk of traffic crashes, determine pedestrian injuries in relation to traffic flow, and compare traffic crash and pedestrian injury rates before and after the overpass construction.

Setting: The study was conducted in Nakawa trading center approximately six kilometers from the center of Kampala city on a major highway. The trading center has a busy market, small retail shops, industries, a sports stadium, offices, low cost housing estates, schools, and an estimated population of 6,226 residents, 15.

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Objectives: To describe injuries and their emergency care at five city hospitals.

Setting: Data were collected between January and December 1998 from casualty departments of the five largest hospitals of Kampala city, Uganda, with bed capacity ranging from 60 to 1200.

Methods: Registry forms were completed on trauma patients.

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