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

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Injuries cause 30% more deaths than HIV, TB and malaria combined, and a prospective fracture care registry was established to investigate the fracture burden and treatment in Malawi to inform evidence-based improvements.

Objective

To use the analysis of prospectively-collected fracture data to develop evidence-based strategies to improve fracture care in Malawi and other similar settings.

Design

Multicentre prospective registry study.

Setting

Two large referral centres and two district hospitals in Malawi.

Participants

All patients with a fracture (confirmed by radiographs)-including patients with multiple fractures-were eligible to be included in the registry.

Exposure

All fractures that presented to two urban central and two rural dis

SUBMITTER: Schade AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8336825 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature