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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Experiences and Interventions by Botswana police officers in providing emergency care in road traffic collisions in the greater Gaborone region29
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 review23
Emergency centre patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Some epidemiological and clinical aspects at Beni General Referral Hospital19
Artificial intelligence in clinical toxicology in Africa: Emerging applications and barriers18
Workplace violence against nurses in the Emergency Department in a Ghanaian Tertiary Hospital17
Climate change and emergency care in Africa: A scoping review17
Implementation of a fast triage score for patients arriving to a low resource hospital in Uganda15
Non-specialist emergency medicine qualifications in Africa: Lessons from the South African Diploma in Primary Emergency Care13
Training and certification in first responder care among mountaineering practitioners in east Africa13
Massive influx of victims: staff preparedness and facility readiness of Tunisian general University Hospitals.13
Awareness, attitude and perceived knowledge regarding First Aid in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A cross-sectional household survey12
Pre-course online cases for the world health organization's basic emergency care course in Uganda: A mixed methods analysis12
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
Accuracy of focused cardiac ultrasound interpretation among emergency and critical care medicine residents in Ethiopia: A multi-center cross-sectional study11
Barriers to accessing appendectomy in the public sector health system in the Western Cape Province, South Africa11
Five-year analysis of clinical presentations and predictors of stroke mortality in rural Southwestern Nigeria: A retrospective observational study10
Incidence and factors associated with being a victim of community assault; retrospective review of medical records in an Emergency Centre10
Bedside colorimetric reagent dipstick in the diagnosis of meningitis in low– and middle–income countries: A prospective, international blinded comparison with laboratory analysis10
An observational simulation-based study of the accuracy of intercostal drain placement and factors influencing placement10
South African palliative care provider perspectives on emergency medical services in palliative situations10
Financial medicine as a source of moral distress: An unrecognised pathway to moral injury in the South African EMS systems10
Experiences of injured patients referred to higher levels of care after initial assessment and management at non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana9
Global Health research abstracts: Jul ‘249
A cohort of pediatric injury patients from a hospital-based trauma registry in Northern Tanzania8
A descriptive analysis of the casemix presenting to a tertiary hospital emergency centre in East London, South Africa8
Chest trauma epidemiology and emergency department management in a tertiary teaching hospital in Kigali, Rwanda8
Consensus-based research priorities for post-collision care in the Western Cape province of South Africa8
Catheterized chicken for training on ultrasound-guided vascular access: A simple, cost-effective, and effective model8
Nurses and emergency nursing care in Botswana8
Level of emergency and disaster preparedness of public hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study8
Current use and perceived barriers of emergency point-of-care ultrasound by African health care practitioners8
The prevalence, management, and thirty-day outcomes of symptomatic atrial fibrillation in a Tanzanian emergency department8
Disaster response readiness assessment of public hospitals in Addis Ababa City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia7
Global Health research abstracts: October ‘257
Global health research abstracts: April ‘237
Incidence of mortality and predictors among patients with shock managed in the emergency room of a tertiary hospital in Ethiopia7
Financial burden associated with attendance at a public hospital emergency department in Johannesburg7
Emergency medicine as a career: Knowledge, attitudes and predictors in Nigerian medical students6
Global health research abstracts: December ‘246
The new injury severity score underestimates true injury severity in a resource-constrained setting6
Global health research abstracts: February ‘246
Implementing the Safe Airway Checklist (SAC) at the emergency department of a major teaching hospital in Rwanda: A pre- and post-intervention study6
Profile of referrals to an intensive care unit from a regional hospital emergency centre in KwaZulu-Natal6
Computed tomography benefits and cost in hemodynamically stable patients with blunt abdominal trauma at an Egyptian University Hospital6
Knowledge, attitude and practice of emergency care providers on obstetric haemorrhage in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A cross-sectional study6
Prognostic accuracy of eight triage scores in suspected COVID-19 in an Emergency Department low-income setting: An observational cohort study5
Quality of systematic reviews in African emergency medicine: a cross-sectional methodological study5
Examining the burden of unintentional injuries in Ghana: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Evaluation des connaissances théoriques des étudiants en médecine sur les gestes de premiers secours en République Démocratique du Congo5
Time delays in emergency stroke care in a low-resource referral hospital in Ghana5
Ketamine as adjunctive or monotherapy for post-intubation sedation in patients with trauma on mechanical ventilation: A rapid review5
Access to acute stroke care: A retrospective descriptive analysis of stroke patients’ journey to a district hospital5
Physical restraint within the prehospital Emergency Medical Care Environment: A scoping review5
Emergency laparotomy for peritonitis in the elderly: A Multicentre observational study of outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa5
Emergency clinician output in a district hospital emergency centre: a cross-sectional analysis5
Clinical impact of a prehospital trauma shock bundle of care in South Africa5
Analysis of risk factors for wound infection after extremity fracture caused by machete cut in a resource-limited setting4
Global Health abstracts4
Thoracic trauma in national hospital Abuja, Nigeria: The epidemiology, injury severity and initial management options4
A systematic review and meta-analysis of noradrenaline compared to adrenaline in the management of septic shock4
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: September ‘244
Determining the research priorities for emergency care within the Western Cape province of South Africa: A consensus study4
Comparison of inferior vena cava collapsibility and central venous pressure in assessing volume status in shocked patients4
The views and experiences of candidates and graduates from a South African emergency medicine doctoral programme4
Malaria and COVID-19: A double battle for Burundi4
Global health research abstracts: January ‘244
Critical care transfers of ventilator-dependent patients from operating theatres to Critical Care Units in a South African Metropole4
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 hospi4
The clinical characteristics and outcomes of appendicitis in a population with a high HIV-infection prevalence4
A qualitative assessment of stakeholder perspectives on barriers and facilitators to emergency care delays in Northern Tanzania through the Three Delays4
Systemic emergency department performance in a low resource tertiary health facility in central Kenya: Micro level emergency care system evaluation4
Essential human and material resources for emergency care in the district hospitals of Burundi4
Global Health research abstracts: March ‘244
Performance of the South African triage score among HIV positive individuals presenting to an emergency department3
Global Health research abstracts: November ‘253
A comparison of the effectiveness of QCPR and conventional CPR training in final-year medical students at a South African university3
Evaluate the incidence, topography, management, and outcomes in patients with polytrauma in the Suez Canal and Sinai areas3
Vehicle extrication in road traffic crashes: a descriptive analysis of an advanced medical rescue service in South Africa3
The knowledge level of nurses managing critically-ill and injured patients in Ashanti Region of Ghana3
Improving the time to pain relief in the emergency department through triage nurse-initiated analgesia - a quasi-experimental study from Ethiopia3
A descriptive study of trauma patients transported by helicopter emergency medical services to a level one trauma centre3
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of emergency medical services in Nairobi, Kenya3
Paediatric emergency care at an academic referral hospital in Mozambique3
Prehospital care utilization and associated factors among trauma patients during armed conflict: A mixed-methods study in west Amhara, Ethiopia referral hospitals3
Knowledge and practices of epistaxis in Eastern Tanzania: A cross-sectional study of an emergency in otorhinolaryngology3
Acute trauma care training in undergraduate medical education programs in Uganda; A cross-sectional survey of final year medical students3
Clinical profile and outcome of patients with acute kidney injury in the Emergency Department of a teaching hospital in Ethiopia3
Developing an Emergency Medicine assessment tool for medical interns within the South African context – A Modified Delphi Study3
A 12-month retrospective descriptive analysis of a single helicopter emergency medical service operator in four South African provinces3
Data completeness and quality of emergency triage in Ethiopian public tertiary hospitals: A multicenter study3
Antivenom supply and demand: An analysis of antivenom availability and utilization in South Africa3
A consensus-based tool for capability benchmarking of emergency medical services in South Africa3
Global Health research abstracts: September ‘253
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