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Traumatic injury affects nearly 5.8 million people annually and causes 10% of the world's deaths. In this study we aimed to estimate injury prevalence, to describe risk-factors and mechanisms of injury, and to estimate the number of injury-related deaths in Nepal, a low-income South Asian country.
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Original Research Article
Surgery, Volume 157, Issue 5, May 2015, Pages 843-849
Shailvi Gupta, Evan G. Wong, Sarthak Nepal, Sunil Shrestha, Adam L. Kushner, Benedict C. Nwomeh, Sherry M. Wren