Increasing trend in all–cause mortality at Regional Referral Hospitals in Uganda during the COVID–19 pandemic (2020–2021)
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2022-11-18
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Quarterly Epidemiological
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Testing limitations and inadequate mortality surveillance systems
complicate the analysis of data on the true burden of deaths associated with
pandemics. One solution is to calculate excess mortality (EM). We described
temporal trends in all–cause mortality at regional referral hospitals (RRHs) in
Uganda and estimated EM during two years of the COVID19 pandemic compared
with five years of historical data (2015–2019).
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Ahirirwe, S. R., Kwiringira, A., Kwesiga, B., Bulage, L., Kadobera, D., & Ario, A. R. Increasing trend in all–cause mortality at Regional Referral Hospitals in Uganda during the COVID–19 pandemic.