Effect of the 2015 earthquake on pediatric inpatient pattern at a tertiary care hospital in Nepal

• Main Authors: Bishnu Rath Giri (Author), Ram Hari Chapagain (Author), Samana Sharma (Author), Sandeep Shrestha (Author), Sunita Ghimire (Author), P. Ravi Shankar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Earthquakes impact child health in many ways. Diseases occurring immediately following an earthquake have been studied in field based hospitals but studies on the inpatient disease pattern among children without trauma in a permanent hospital setup is lacking. Methods We examined...