Publication: Closing the data gaps for surgical care delivery in LMICs
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2016
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Riviello, Robert, and John W Scott. 2016. “Closing the Data Gaps for Surgical Care Delivery in LMICs.” The Lancet Global Health 4 (3) (March): e138–e139. doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(16)00042-5.
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In their study in The Lancet Global Health, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz and colleagues1 find great discrepancies in surgical outcomes across the regions of the world.1 The authors examined three procedures that are fairly standardised in their operative indications and techniques (caesarean delivery, appendectomy, and groin hernia repair), and thus for which reporting should be nearly uniform. By undertaking a robust systematic review, Uribe-Leitz and colleagues have shown that quality surgical outcome data are a relatively void zone in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
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