African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Papers
(The TQCC of African Journal of Emergency Medicine is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Emergency preparedness capacity of a university hospital in Ghana: a cross-sectional study24
Acute organophosphorus toxicity in a regional hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa: A retrospective chart review22
Experiences and Interventions by Botswana police officers in providing emergency care in road traffic collisions in the greater Gaborone region18
Trauma patients at the Helderberg District Hospital emergency centre, South Africa: A descriptive study17
Emergency centre patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Some epidemiological and clinical aspects at Beni General Referral Hospital16
Implementation of a fast triage score for patients arriving to a low resource hospital in Uganda16
Awareness, attitude and perceived knowledge regarding First Aid in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A cross-sectional household survey14
Massive influx of victims: staff preparedness and facility readiness of Tunisian general University Hospitals.14
Accuracy of focused cardiac ultrasound interpretation among emergency and critical care medicine residents in Ethiopia: A multi-center cross-sectional study14
Non-specialist emergency medicine qualifications in Africa: Lessons from the South African Diploma in Primary Emergency Care14
Training and certification in first responder care among mountaineering practitioners in east Africa13
Ten years of the community-based emergency first aid responder (EFAR) system in the Western Cape of South Africa: What has happened, what has changed, and what has been learned11
Characteristics and outcomes of patients with an unscheduled return visit within 72 hours to the Paediatric Emergency Centre at a Private Tertiary Referral Hospital in Kenya10
Climate change and emergency care in Africa: A scoping review10
Incidence and factors associated with being a victim of community assault; retrospective review of medical records in an Emergency Centre9
Bedside colorimetric reagent dipstick in the diagnosis of meningitis in low– and middle–income countries: A prospective, international blinded comparison with laboratory analysis9
Age-related laryngoscopic visual acuity9
Pre-course online cases for the world health organization's basic emergency care course in Uganda: A mixed methods analysis9
An observational simulation-based study of the accuracy of intercostal drain placement and factors influencing placement9
Barriers to accessing appendectomy in the public sector health system in the Western Cape Province, South Africa8
Financial medicine as a source of moral distress: An unrecognised pathway to moral injury in the South African EMS systems8
Global health research abstracts: April ‘237
Level of emergency and disaster preparedness of public hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study7
South African palliative care provider perspectives on emergency medical services in palliative situations7
Disaster response readiness assessment of public hospitals in Addis Ababa City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia7
Experiences of injured patients referred to higher levels of care after initial assessment and management at non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana7
Five-year analysis of clinical presentations and predictors of stroke mortality in rural Southwestern Nigeria: A retrospective observational study7
A cohort of pediatric injury patients from a hospital-based trauma registry in Northern Tanzania7
Global Health research abstracts: Jul ‘247
The prevalence, management, and thirty-day outcomes of symptomatic atrial fibrillation in a Tanzanian emergency department6
Current use and perceived barriers of emergency point-of-care ultrasound by African health care practitioners6
Financial burden associated with attendance at a public hospital emergency department in Johannesburg6
A descriptive analysis of the casemix presenting to a tertiary hospital emergency centre in East London, South Africa6
Nurses and emergency nursing care in Botswana6
Catheterized chicken for training on ultrasound-guided vascular access: A simple, cost-effective, and effective model6
Chest trauma epidemiology and emergency department management in a tertiary teaching hospital in Kigali, Rwanda6
Prognostic accuracy of eight triage scores in suspected COVID-19 in an Emergency Department low-income setting: An observational cohort study5
Computed tomography benefits and cost in hemodynamically stable patients with blunt abdominal trauma at an Egyptian University Hospital5
The new injury severity score underestimates true injury severity in a resource-constrained setting5
Emergency medicine as a career: Knowledge, attitudes and predictors in Nigerian medical students5
Global health research abstracts: February ‘245
Profile of referrals to an intensive care unit from a regional hospital emergency centre in KwaZulu-Natal5
Emergency laparotomy for peritonitis in the elderly: A Multicentre observational study of outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa5
Clinical outcome and comparison of burn injury scoring systems in burn patient in Indonesia5
Physical restraint within the prehospital Emergency Medical Care Environment: A scoping review5
Global health research abstracts: December ‘245
Impact of structured basic life-support course on nurses' cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge and skills: Experience of a paediatric department in low-resource country5
Emergency clinician output in a district hospital emergency centre: a cross-sectional analysis4
Ketamine as adjunctive or monotherapy for post-intubation sedation in patients with trauma on mechanical ventilation: A rapid review4
Management of acute fever in children: Consensus recommendations for community and primary healthcare providers in sub-Saharan Africa4
Global Health abstracts4
Analysis of risk factors for wound infection after extremity fracture caused by machete cut in a resource-limited setting4
Quality of systematic reviews in African emergency medicine: a cross-sectional methodological study4
Access to acute stroke care: A retrospective descriptive analysis of stroke patients’ journey to a district hospital4
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of first aid among taxi operators in a Kampala City Taxi Park, Uganda: A cross-sectional study4
Global Health research abstracts: March ‘244
Determining the research priorities for emergency care within the Western Cape province of South Africa: A consensus study4
Evaluation des connaissances théoriques des étudiants en médecine sur les gestes de premiers secours en République Démocratique du Congo4
Clinical impact of a prehospital trauma shock bundle of care in South Africa4
The clinical characteristics and outcomes of appendicitis in a population with a high HIV-infection prevalence4
Comparison of inferior vena cava collapsibility and central venous pressure in assessing volume status in shocked patients4
A qualitative assessment of stakeholder perspectives on barriers and facilitators to emergency care delays in Northern Tanzania through the Three Delays4
Comparison of paediatric weight estimation methods at a tertiary hospital in Ghana3
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of emergency medical services in Nairobi, Kenya3
Outcomes of a Climate Change Workshop at the 2020 African Conference on Emergency Medicine3
Thoracic trauma in national hospital Abuja, Nigeria: The epidemiology, injury severity and initial management options3
A 12-month retrospective descriptive analysis of a single helicopter emergency medical service operator in four South African provinces3
Evaluate the incidence, topography, management, and outcomes in patients with polytrauma in the Suez Canal and Sinai areas3
The views and experiences of candidates and graduates from a South African emergency medicine doctoral programme3
Performance of the South African triage score among HIV positive individuals presenting to an emergency department3
Results from the implementation of the World Health Organization Basic Emergency Care Course in Lagos, Nigeria3
Malaria and COVID-19: A double battle for Burundi3
Essential human and material resources for emergency care in the district hospitals of Burundi3
Systemic emergency department performance in a low resource tertiary health facility in central Kenya: Micro level emergency care system evaluation3
A comparison of the effectiveness of QCPR and conventional CPR training in final-year medical students at a South African university3
Developing an Emergency Medicine assessment tool for medical interns within the South African context – A Modified Delphi Study3
A descriptive study of trauma patients transported by helicopter emergency medical services to a level one trauma centre3
Paediatric emergency care at an academic referral hospital in Mozambique3
Predicting mortality in trauma patients - A retrospective comparison of the performance of six scoring systems applied to polytrauma patients from the emergency centre of a South African central hospi3
Global Health research abstracts: September ‘243
Global health research abstracts: January ‘243
Prehospital care for traumatic spinal cord injury by first responders in 8 sub-Saharan African countries and 6 other low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review3
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