title: Trauma in the developing world: the jamaican experience.
abstract: Trauma remains a challenging burden on the often under-funded healthcare systems of developing countries. Ten-year data from the Jamaica Trauma Registry show that trauma accounts for 20% of surgical admissions, with close to 50% being intentional and with a 5% mortality. There is a good opportunity for various preventive programmes to be instituted to reduce the burden of this disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica. joseph_plummer@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Plummer
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ferron-Boothe
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Meeks-Aitken
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: McDonald