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A geospatial analysis of two-hour surgical access to district hospitals in South Africa
BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background In a robust health care system, at least 80% of a country’s population should be able to access a district hospital that provides surgical care within 2 hours.
Kathryn M. Chu +6 more
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A country-level comparison of access to quality surgical and non-surgical healthcare from 1990-2016.
PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundThe Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) index, developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, uses estimates of amenable mortality to quantify health system performance over time.
Taylor Wurdeman +3 more
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Issues of Organization of the Cardiac Surgical Care in Ukraine under Martial Law
Український журнал серцево-судинної хірургії, 2023 The aim. To study and substantiate the new principles of organization in the provision of cardiac surgical care under martial law. Materials and methods.
Mykola L. Rudenko +4 more
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The management of secondary lower limb lymphoedema in cancer patients: A systematic review. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Lower limb lymphoedema is a recognised complication of cancer commonly encountered in palliative care, associated with reduced mobility and poor quality of life.
Lymphoedema Framework +3 more
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Framework for developing a national surgical, obstetric and anaesthesia plan
BJS Open, 2019 Background Emergency and essential surgical, obstetric and anaesthesia (SOA) care are now recognized components of universal health coverage, necessary for a functional health system.
K. A. Sonderman +14 more
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Estimating access to surgical care: A community centered national household survey from Pakistan.
PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 Pakistan is a lower middle-income country in South Asia with a population of 225 million. No estimate for surgical care access exists for the country. We postulate the estimated access to surgical care is less than the minimum 80% to be achieved by 2030.
Muhammad Nabeel Ashraf +7 more
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Basal ganglia role in learning rewarded actions and executing previously learned choices: Healthy and diseased states [PDF]
, 2020 The basal ganglia (BG) is a collection of nuclei located deep beneath the cerebral cortex that is involved in learning and selection of rewarded actions. Here, we analyzed BG mechanisms that enable these functions.
Atwood, Brady +2 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives To inform national planning, six indicators posed by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery were collected for the Mongolian surgical system.
Raymond R Price +15 more
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Keratoprostheses for corneal blindness: a review of contemporary devices [PDF]
, 2015 According to the World Health Organization, globally 4.9 million are blind due to corneal pathology. Corneal transplantation is successful and curative of the blindness for a majority of these cases. However, it is less successful in a number of diseases
Avadhanam, Venkata +2 more
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Frontiers in Surgery, 2021 Background: Worldwide, neurological disorders are the leading cause of disability-adjusted life years lost and the second leading cause of death. Despite global health capacity-building efforts, each year, 22.6 million individuals worldwide require ...
Jean Wilguens Lartigue +11 more
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