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Geo-enabled Trauma Registries: The Case of Cape Town, South Africa

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Trauma registries are repositories of systematically collected clinical, demographic and epidemiological data on patients who have sustained injuries (Nwomeh et al., World J Emerg Surg 1(1):32, 2006). With an example of a trauma hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, this chapter highlights the story of a decade-long effort to develop a trauma registry. Contained within this account are many sub-plots, including the value of trauma registries in the effort to improve injury prevention and management, the obstacles to the complete and permanent implementation of registries in low- and middle-income settings, the transition from paper to digital registry records and finally, the many geospatial applications of a detailed trauma registry.

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Tuyisenge, G., Rosenkrantz, L., Schuurman, N., Randall, E., Hameed, M. (2021). Geo-enabled Trauma Registries: The Case of Cape Town, South Africa. In: Makanga, P.T. (eds) Practicing Health Geography. Global Perspectives on Health Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63471-1_11

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