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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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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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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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Academic Output in Global Surgery after the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery: A Scoping Review
, 2022 BACKGROUND: The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) published its seminal report in 2015, carving a niche for global surgery academia. Six years after the LCoGS, a scoping review was conducted to see how the term 'global surgery' is characterized
Roy, Nobhojit +17 more
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Preoperative visual acuity among cataract surgery patients and countries' state of development: a global study. [PDF]
, 2011 OBJECTIVE: To describe the preoperative surgical case mix among patients undergoing cataract extraction and explore associations between case mix, country level of development (as measured by the Human Development Index, HDI) and cataract surgery rates ...
Razavi, H +20 more
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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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, 2023 Purpose: With increased interest in international surgical experiences, many residency programs have integrated global surgery into their training curricula.
Saruni, Seno I. +8 more
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Access to and quality of elective care: a prospective cohort study using hernia surgery as a tracer condition in 83 countries [PDF]
background: timely and safe elective health care facilitates return to normal activities for patients and prevents emergency admissions. surgery is a cornerstone of elective care and relies on complex pathways.
Sica Giuseppe +1 more
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Accountability in global surgery missions [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2018 ### Summary box There are limited supervisory systems, if any, regulating poor outcomes after medical and surgical missions in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Even in the environment of close legal and academic oversight,1 2 the medical community fights the perception that only ‘good’ outcomes are reported in medical journals.3 The nature of ...
Zitzman, Elena +2 more
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A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts [PDF]
Background: Pulmonary complications are the most common cause of death after surgery. This study aimed to derive and externally validate a novel prognostic model that can be used before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary ...
STARSurg Collaborative +3 more
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