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Meera Kotagal

Researcher at University of Washington

Publications -  46
Citations -  7134

Meera Kotagal is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 22 publications receiving 6010 citations. Previous affiliations of Meera Kotagal include Partners In Health & Harvard University.

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Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohsen Naghavi, +731 more
- 10 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors, the authors used the GBD 2010 methods with some refinements to improve accuracy applied to an updated database of vital registration, survey, and census data.
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Global access to surgical care: a modelling study.

Blake C. Alkire, +23 more
- 01 Jun 2015 - 
TL;DR: The number of individuals worldwide without access to surgical services as defined by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery is estimated, with findings that the near absence of access in many low-income and middle-income countries represents a crisis.
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Perioperative hyperglycemia and risk of adverse events among patients with and without diabetes

Meera Kotagal, +6 more
- 01 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: For NDM patients, but not DM patients, the risk of adverse events was linked to hyperglycemia, and underlying this paradoxical effect may be the underuse of insulin, but also that hyper glycemia indicates higher levels of stress in NDM Patients than in DM patients.
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Health and Economic Benefits of Improved Injury Prevention and Trauma Care Worldwide

Meera Kotagal, +5 more
- 13 Mar 2014 - 
TL;DR: Reducing injury mortality in low- and middle-income countries could save over 2 million lives per year and provide significant economic benefit globally.
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Perioperative mortality rates in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Joshua S Ng-Kamstra, +22 more
- 01 Jun 2018 - 
TL;DR: Efforts to improve access to surgical care in LMICs should be accompanied by investment in improving the quality and safety of care and standard reporting items should be included with any POMR estimate, according to the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery's proposed perioperative mortality rate (POMR).