The start-up of a neurosurgical service in an East Indonesian archipelagic province: The first 2-year experience of North Maluku Database in Neurosurgery (NOMADEN)

CONCLUSION: A large portion of neurosurgical patients in North Maluku were those young and at productive age who were transported from outside Ternate with acute neurological disease (particularly neurotrauma). Distance and geographical circumstances may have a profound effect on access to neurosurgical services.PMID:38468665 | PMC:PMC10927227 | DOI:10.25259/SNI_1026_2023
Source: Surgical Neurology International - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Source Type: research