An Urgent Need for a Common Framework for the Articulation, Design and Reporting of Surgical System Strengthening Interventions; Comment on “Improving Access to Surgery Through Surgical Team Mentoring – Policy Lessons From Group Model Building With Local Stakeholders in Malawi” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 Nearly 60% of the world’s inhabitants lack access to timely, safe, and ffordable emergency and essential surgical, anesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) services when needed.
Joseph S. Hanna
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Image processing for plastic surgery planning [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis presents some image processing tools for plastic surgery planning. In particular, it presents a novel method that combines local and global context in a probabilistic relaxation framework to identify cephalometric landmarks used in ...
Favaedi, Leila, Favaedi, Leila
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Academic Global Surgery: Creating Opportunities, Equity, and Diversity
Annals of Global Health, 2023 A workforce trained in the development and delivery of equitable surgical care is critical in reducing the global burden of surgical disease. Academic global surgery aims to address the present inequities through collaborative partnerships that foster ...
Tanaz Vaghaiwalla +10 more
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Objectification theory predicts college women’s attitudes toward cosmetic surgery [PDF]
, 2010 This study investigated cosmetic surgery attitudes within the framework of objectification theory. One hundred predominantlyWhite, British undergraduate women completed self-report measures of impression management, global selfesteem, interpersonal ...
Calogero, Rachel M. +3 more
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Resource Re-Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Suburban Hospital System: Implications for Outpatient Hip and Knee Arthroplasty [PDF]
, 2020 The COVID pandemic of 2020 has emerged as a global threat to patients, health care providers, and to the global economy. Owing to this particular novel and highly infectious strain of coronavirus, the rapid community spread and clinical severity of the ...
Meneghini, R. Michael
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Quality of life and chronic pain four years after gastrointestinal surgery [PDF]
, 2006 PURPOSE: Little is known about the prevalence of chronic postsurgical pain after gastrointestinal surgery. This study was designed to assess the prevalence of chronic pain and quality of life in a cohort of patients who underwent surgery for benign and ...
Bruce, Julie, Krukowski, Zygmunt H.
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Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2020 This article outlines the global surgery activities held at the 66th Annual International Meeting of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) in 2019. For the first time BAPS introduced a plenary session on global surgery. Topics that were covered include management of birth defects in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC), mostly ...
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Surgical leadership in changing times: the American College of Surgeons perspective
Innovative Surgical Sciences, 2019 Surgeons around the globe are challenged by the rapid evolution of the environment in which they practice their profession. Changes in surgical technologies, the complexity of surgical patient care, and the regulatory and financial environment of ...
Bass Barbara Lee
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Decolonizing the decolonization movement in global health: A perspective from global surgery
Frontiers in Education, 2022 There has been a recent increase in dialogs around decolonization in global health. We present a perspective from global surgery emphasizing personal experiences around equity in barriers to education and surgical missions, citing specific personal ...
Emmanuel Bua, Saad Liaqat Sahi
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Audiology Research, 2022 Background: The advancement of otologic surgery in low-resource settings has been limited by the cost and transport of surgical equipment. This study compared the transportation costs of an otologic microscopic surgical setup (MSS) versus an endoscopic ...
Rachel Thompson +3 more
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