| MCIs | Mass casualty incidents |
| LMICs | Low- and middle-income countries |
| NSOAP | National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plan |
| ED | Emergency Department |
| OR | Operating Room |
| HDU | High-Dependency Unit |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
| DMAHS | Director of Medical and Allied Health Services |
| REDCAP | Research Electronic Data Capture |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| ICC | Intraclass Correlation |
| ANOVA | Analysis of one-way variance |
| CT | Computer tomography |
| CHUB | Butare University Teaching Hospital |
| CHUK | Kigali University Teaching Hospital |
| EMS | Emergency Medical Services |