Estimation of the burden of out-of-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest in Karachi, Pakistan, using a cross-sectional capture-recapture analysis

Abstract Background The burden of trauma-related-out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in developing countries like Pakistan remains largely unexplored due to a lack of organized pre-hospital systems. In order to estimate the burden, we used a two-sample capture-recapture method which has been used...

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Main Authors: Minaz Mawani, Iqbal Azam, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Zainab Samad, Junaid Abdul Razzak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:International Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12245-020-00283-z