Journal article
The effectiveness of sustainable serial casting for clubfoot deformity in a low resource setting
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Aims
Our aim was to assess the effectiveness of the Malawi Clubfoot Programme and comment on such health care strategies in developing countries.
Methods
Medical records of 1069 children attending 29 clinics within Malawi were identified between 2007 and 2013. Due to incomplete recording, only 596 patients had adequate data which could be further analysed.
Results
The mean age of presentation was 103 days (range 0-8 years) with a sex distribution o...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- College of Medicine and the Medical Association of Malawi Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malawi Medical Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 37-39
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-12-28
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1995-7270
- ISSN:
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1995-7262
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pubs:835100
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uuid:098181a5-80b3-4554-b058-538036d710b0
- Local pid:
- pubs:835100
- Deposit date:
- 2018-05-15
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- College of Medicine and the Medical Association of Malawi
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
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© 2018 The College of Medicine and the Medical Association of Malawi. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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