Article: New surgery research from Montreal General Hospital outlined.

"Trauma remains a tremendous cause of morbidity and mortality in most countries. The objective of our study was to describe injury from trauma at the major referral hospital in Uganda over a 1-year period," scientists in Montreal, Canada report (see also Surgery).

"Trauma registry forms have been completed for all trauma patients seen between August 2004 and July 2005 at the casualty department of Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. We also obtained 2-week follow-up data, and we compared these data with 1998 data from the same institution. In all, 3778 patients were entered into the database, with complete data available for 93.5% of patients. had a mean age of ...

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