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Title |
Ethics of Burn Wound Care in a Low-Middle Income Country
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Published in |
AMA Journal of Ethics, June 2018
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DOI | 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.6.msoc1-1806 |
Pubmed ID | |
Abstract |
This review focuses on burn care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It attempts to put the burden of disease in perspective by showing that burn care is under-resourced across the spectrum of LMICs and by interrogating the ethical dilemmas and challenges that staff face in caring for burn patients in this environment, with a focus on South Africa. More specifically, it will attempt to address the following issues: the threshold for utilizing the intensive care unit (ICU), how to balance treatment against cost, the percentage burn considered survivable and how it should be determined, the use of skin from both cadavers and living related donors, and the appropriate ethical guidelines for LMICs. |
Twitter Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 tweeters who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 7 | 64% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |
South Africa | 1 | 9% |
Unknown | 2 | 18% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 5 | 45% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 27% |
Scientists | 2 | 18% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 25 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 25 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 9 | 36% |
Librarian | 2 | 8% |
Other | 2 | 8% |
Professor | 2 | 8% |
Researcher | 2 | 8% |
Other | 5 | 20% |
Unknown | 3 | 12% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 36% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 12% |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 8% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 4% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 4% |
Other | 3 | 12% |
Unknown | 6 | 24% |