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The experience and psychosocial needs of patients with traumatic fractures treated for more than six months at Doctors on Call for Service Hospital, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

Published in: South African Family Practice
Volume 53 , issue 2 , 2011 , pages: 189–192

DOI: 10.1080/20786204.2011.10874083

Author(s): HI Okonta Department of Family Medicine & PHC, South Africa , KL Malemo DOCS Hospital, Congo DRC , GA Ogunbanjo Department of Family Medicine & PHC, South Africa

Keywords: trauma , fracture , psychosocial needs , pain , DRC

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Abstract

Background: Trauma-related consultations, admissions and complications are the leading problems at Doctors on Call for Service (DOCS) Hospital, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, and yet no studies have been carried out to document the experience of long-stay traumatic-fracture patients in this hospital.

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