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The Demographic Profile of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury in Cape Town
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Christ, B. Thomas, Kevin J. A. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | The study describes the demographic profile of pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Cape Town. Records from the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital (RXH) were used to identify cases of TBI in children up to 15 years of age, who were admitted within the months of April and August, 2007. The research design was thus of the retrospective observational type. Statistical analyses described the demographic trends in sex, age, TBI severity, socioeconomic status, and etiology of TBI. These results are discussed against the backdrop of international research on pediatric TBI, and thus shed light on the extent to which epidemiological findings on TBI in developed countries are applicable to developing countries such as South Africa. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.psychology.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/117/Bjorn.Christ.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
