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Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development.

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The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery has five key messages, a set of indicators and recommendations to improve access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care in LMICs, and a template for a national surgical plan.
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This article is published in International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia.The article was published on 2016-02-01. It has received 185 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global health.

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Mortality of emergency abdominal surgery in high-, middle- and low-income countries

TL;DR: The aim was prospectively to collect worldwide mortality data following emergency abdominal surgery, comparing findings across countries with a low, middle or high Human Development Index (HDI).
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Emergency and essential surgical healthcare services during COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries: A perspective.

TL;DR: Reducing the devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on LMIC emergency and essential surgical services can be achieved through empowering communities with accurate information and knowledge on prevention, optimizing surgical material resources, and ensuring adequate personal protection equipment for workers on the frontline.
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Emergency-to-Elective Surgery Ratio: A Global Indicator of Access to Surgical Care.

TL;DR: The Ee ratio appears to be a simple and valid indicator of access to available surgical care, which represents the number of emergency surgeries performed for every 100 elective surgeries in low- and middle-income countries.
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Epidemiology and Characteristics of Neurosurgical Conditions at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.

TL;DR: Traumatic brain injury represented the majority of neurosurgical admissions at MRRH, disproportionately affecting young males, and age, closed head injury, admission Glasgow Coma Scale, getting a diagnostic image, and neuros surgical procedure were all independent predictors of mortality.
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