Characterising emergency centre encounters in Mbour, Senegal as emergent-emergency care, emergent-primary care or non-emergent.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emergency medicine is a relatively new specialty in Africa, with the first emergency medicine training programme only started in South Africa in 2004. Continued emergency centre development and preparedness relies on a better understanding of the quantity and category of emergency centre encounters within the various African regions.

Methods

This study was conducted over four, consecutive months in 2014 using a retrospective chart review, aimed to examine the types of visits made to one emergency centre at the Grande Mbour Hospital in Mbour, Senegal. The New York University Emergency Department Algorithm was used to classify emergency centre encounters. Each diagnosis included in this study was classified per the algorithm as non-emergent; emergent but primary c

SUBMITTER: Marsala JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6234195 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature