Epidemiology of surgical admissions to a children's disability hospital in Nepal.

PubWeight™: 0.77‹?›

🔗 View Article (PMID 20177682)

Published in World J Surg on May 01, 2010

Authors

David A Spiegel1, Om P Shrestha, Tarun Rajbhandary, Binod Bijukachhe, Prakash Sitoula, Bibek Banskota, Ashok Banskota

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2nd Floor Wood Building, 34th Street and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. spiegeld@email.chop.edu

Articles cited by this

The global burden of injuries. Am J Public Health (2000) 8.32

Prevalence and risk factors of neurological disability and impairment in children living in rural Kenya. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 2.81

Burns in low- and middle-income countries: a review of available literature on descriptive epidemiology, risk factors, treatment, and prevention. Burns (2006) 2.71

The problem of children's injuries in low-income countries: a review. Health Policy Plan (2002) 1.73

Surgical services in low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet (2007) 1.63

The role of the traditional bonesetter in primary fracture care in Nigeria. S Afr Med J (2004) 1.61

Epidemiology of paediatric surgical admissions to a government referral hospital in the Gambia. Bull World Health Organ (2000) 1.61

Paediatric burn injuries in Sub Saharan Africa--an overview. Burns (2006) 1.60

The epidemiology of developmental disabilities in low-income countries. Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev (2002) 1.53

Surgical services for children in developing countries. Bull World Health Organ (2002) 1.38

Injuries and noncommunicable diseases: emerging health problems of children in developing countries. Bull World Health Organ (1999) 1.34

The incidence of injuries in young people: I. Methodology and results of a collaborative study in Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Venezuela. Int J Epidemiol (1990) 1.27

Ponseti method for untreated idiopathic clubfeet in Nepalese patients from 1 to 6 years of age. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2008) 1.26

Identification of childhood disability in Jamaica: the ten question screen. Int J Rehabil Res (1992) 1.21

Essential emergency surgical, procedures in resource-limited facilities: a WHO workshop in Mongolia. World Hosp Health Serv (2004) 1.09

Prevalence of childhood and adolescent disabilities in rural Nepal. Indian Pediatr (2005) 1.03

Performance of a trained traditional bonesetter in primary fracture care. S Afr Med J (2006) 1.02

Chronic osteomyelitis in a Ugandan rural setting. East Afr Med J (2003) 0.98

Prevalence of childhood disability in rural KwaZulu-Natal. S Afr Med J (2002) 0.97

A 3 year prospective audit of burns patients treated at the Western Regional Hospital of Nepal. Burns (1998) 0.94

Mismanagement of elbow joint fractures and dislocations by traditional bone setters in Plateau State, Nigeria. Trop Geogr Med (1986) 0.87

Burn-related physical impairments and disabilities in Ghanaian children: prevalence and risk factors. Am J Public Health (1996) 0.84

Two faces of major lower limb amputations. Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ) (2008) 0.83

Paediatric trauma in the rural developing world: low cost measures to improve outcome. Injury (1993) 0.79

The prevalence of congenital orthopaedic anomalies in a rural community. Int Orthop (1993) 0.79

Chronic osteomyelitis of long bones: reasons for delay in presentation. Niger J Med (2004) 0.79

[Current profile of hematogenous osteomyelitis in children at the Tokoin University Hospital Center in Lome, Togo. Report of 145 cases]. Med Trop (Mars) (2000) 0.77

A study of the current situation regarding disabled children in China and its countermeasures. Chin J Popul Sci (1991) 0.75

The prevalence and characteristics of disability in Eastern Nepal. Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ) (2008) 0.75