African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Papers
(The TQCC of African Journal of Emergency Medicine is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Experiences and Interventions by Botswana police officers in providing emergency care in road traffic collisions in the greater Gaborone region25
Acute organophosphorus toxicity in a regional hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa: A retrospective chart review22
Emergency centre patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Some epidemiological and clinical aspects at Beni General Referral Hospital19
Emergency preparedness capacity of a university hospital in Ghana: a cross-sectional study19
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 learned17
Accuracy of focused cardiac ultrasound interpretation among emergency and critical care medicine residents in Ethiopia: A multi-center cross-sectional study17
Training and certification in first responder care among mountaineering practitioners in east Africa16
Implementation of a fast triage score for patients arriving to a low resource hospital in Uganda16
Non-specialist emergency medicine qualifications in Africa: Lessons from the South African Diploma in Primary Emergency Care14
Massive influx of victims: staff preparedness and facility readiness of Tunisian general University Hospitals.12
Five-year analysis of clinical presentations and predictors of stroke mortality in rural Southwestern Nigeria: A retrospective observational study11
Pre-course online cases for the world health organization's basic emergency care course in Uganda: A mixed methods analysis11
Incidence and factors associated with being a victim of community assault; retrospective review of medical records in an Emergency Centre11
Awareness, attitude and perceived knowledge regarding First Aid in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A cross-sectional household survey11
Climate change and emergency care in Africa: A scoping review11
Bedside colorimetric reagent dipstick in the diagnosis of meningitis in low– and middle–income countries: A prospective, international blinded comparison with laboratory analysis10
Financial medicine as a source of moral distress: An unrecognised pathway to moral injury in the South African EMS systems10
Barriers to accessing appendectomy in the public sector health system in the Western Cape Province, South Africa10
Experiences of injured patients referred to higher levels of care after initial assessment and management at non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana10
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
Global Health research abstracts: Jul ‘2410
Clinical outcome and comparison of burn injury scoring systems in burn patient in Indonesia8
Level of emergency and disaster preparedness of public hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study8
Chest trauma epidemiology and emergency department management in a tertiary teaching hospital in Kigali, Rwanda8
A cohort of pediatric injury patients from a hospital-based trauma registry in Northern Tanzania8
The prevalence, management, and thirty-day outcomes of symptomatic atrial fibrillation in a Tanzanian emergency department8
Nurses and emergency nursing care in Botswana7
Current use and perceived barriers of emergency point-of-care ultrasound by African health care practitioners7
Global health research abstracts: February ‘247
Global health research abstracts: April ‘237
Financial burden associated with attendance at a public hospital emergency department in Johannesburg7
A descriptive analysis of the casemix presenting to a tertiary hospital emergency centre in East London, South Africa7
Catheterized chicken for training on ultrasound-guided vascular access: A simple, cost-effective, and effective model7
Disaster response readiness assessment of public hospitals in Addis Ababa City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia7
Profile of referrals to an intensive care unit from a regional hospital emergency centre in KwaZulu-Natal6
Physical restraint within the prehospital Emergency Medical Care Environment: A scoping review6
The new injury severity score underestimates true injury severity in a resource-constrained setting6
Emergency medicine as a career: Knowledge, attitudes and predictors in Nigerian medical students6
Emergency laparotomy for peritonitis in the elderly: A Multicentre observational study of outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa6
Quality of systematic reviews in African emergency medicine: a cross-sectional methodological study6
Global health research abstracts: December ‘246
Prognostic accuracy of eight triage scores in suspected COVID-19 in an Emergency Department low-income setting: An observational cohort study6
Computed tomography benefits and cost in hemodynamically stable patients with blunt abdominal trauma at an Egyptian University Hospital6
Evaluation des connaissances théoriques des étudiants en médecine sur les gestes de premiers secours en République Démocratique du Congo5
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
Global Health abstracts5
Clinical impact of a prehospital trauma shock bundle of care in South Africa5
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 analysis5
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: January ‘244
Systemic emergency department performance in a low resource tertiary health facility in central Kenya: Micro level emergency care system evaluation4
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
A qualitative assessment of stakeholder perspectives on barriers and facilitators to emergency care delays in Northern Tanzania through the Three Delays4
Analysis of risk factors for wound infection after extremity fracture caused by machete cut in a resource-limited setting4
Determining the research priorities for emergency care within the Western Cape province of South Africa: A consensus study4
The views and experiences of candidates and graduates from a South African emergency medicine doctoral programme4
Comparison of inferior vena cava collapsibility and central venous pressure in assessing volume status in shocked patients4
The clinical characteristics and outcomes of appendicitis in a population with a high HIV-infection prevalence4
Global Health research abstracts: September ‘244
Malaria and COVID-19: A double battle for Burundi4
Essential human and material resources for emergency care in the district hospitals of Burundi4
Paediatric emergency care at an academic referral hospital in Mozambique4
Thoracic trauma in national hospital Abuja, Nigeria: The epidemiology, injury severity and initial management options4
Global Health research abstracts: March ‘244
Outcomes of a Climate Change Workshop at the 2020 African Conference on Emergency Medicine4
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