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Cherinet Osebo, Jeremy Grushka, Dan Deckelbaum, Tarek Razek
BACKGROUND: Surgical, anesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) care plays a crucial role in global health, recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS). LCoGS outlines six indicators for integrating SAO services into a country's healthcare system through National Surgical Obstetrics and Anesthesia Plans (NSOAPs). In Ethiopia, surgical services progress lacks evaluation. This study assesses current Ethiopian surgical capacity using the LCoGS NSOAPs framework...
June 2024: Surgery open science
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Olufemi E Idowu, Jeuel O Idowu, Oluwatobiloba C Badmus
OBJECTIVE: Limited research has addressed the barriers impeding access to surgical care for pediatric patients with hydrocephalus. To identify priorities for enhancing access to pediatric hydrocephalus surgical care and to address healthcare disparities, it is essential to understand the level of access to care and the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal health literacy. In this study, the authors aimed to assess the level of access to surgical care; determine the frequency of more than a 2-week delay in seeking, reaching, and receiving care; and investigate the influence of parental SES and maternal health literacy on these delays...
February 9, 2024: Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics
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Chandrakanth Are, Shilpa S Murthy, Richard Sullivan, Makayla Schissel, Sanjib Chowdhury, Olesegun Alatise, Daniel Anaya, Madhuri Are, Charles Balch, David Bartlett, Murray Brennan, Lydia Cairncross, Matthew Clark, S V S Deo, Vikas Dudeja, Domenico D'Ugo, Ibtihal Fadhil, Armando Giuliano, Satish Gopal, Lily Gutnik, Andre Ilbawi, Pankaj Jani, Peter Kingham, Laura Lorenzon, Premila Leiphrakpam, Augusto Leon, Hector Martinez-Said, Kelly McMasters, David O Meltzer, Miriam Mutebi, Zafar Nabeel, Vibhavari Naik, Lisa Newman, Alexandre Ferreira Oliveira, Do Joong Park, C S Pramesh, Saieesh Rao, T Subramanyeshwar Rao, Enrique Rocha Bargallo, Anya Romanoff, Anne F Rositch, Isabel Rubio, Heber Salvador de Castro Ribeiro, Eman Sbaity, Maheswari Senthil, Lynette Smith, Masakazi Toi, Kiran Turaga, Ujwal Yanala, Cheng-Har Yip, Ashraf Zaghloul, Benjamin O Anderson
The first Lancet Oncology Commission on Global Cancer Surgery was published in 2015 and serves as a landmark paper in the field of cancer surgery. The Commission highlighted the burden of cancer and the importance of cancer surgery, while documenting the many inadequacies in the ability to deliver safe, timely, and affordable cancer surgical care. This Commission builds on the first Commission by focusing on solutions and actions to improve access to cancer surgery globally, developed by drawing upon the expertise from cancer surgery leaders across the world...
November 1, 2023: Lancet Oncology
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Kelsey Brown, Michael J Flores, Billy Haonga, Linda C Chokotho, Jamieson M O'Marr, Patricia Rodarte, David Shearer, Saam Morshed
Traumatic and nontraumatic orthopaedic conditions are major contributors to global morbidity and account for the majority of life-years lived with disability worldwide. Additionally, the burden of musculoskeletal injuries has increased substantially over the past 3 decades. Unfortunately, in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), access to orthopaedic care is limited, leading to a disproportionate burden of disease. The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery has emphasized the urgent need for unified international commitment and research collaboration to achieve universal access to safe and affordable surgical care...
October 18, 2023: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume
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Ifeoluwa Shoyombo, Abraham Genetu, Lye-Yeng Wong, Muhammed Elhadi, Eric Twizeyimana, Grace Paidamoyo Gwini, Rutikanga William, Timothy Hall, Halimah Khalil, Siva Nyanamani Sandrasagran, Monica Langer
BACKGROUND: Surgical volume is a surgical indicator that was described in the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) and the World Bank World Development Indicators as an important metric for tracking the delivery of surgical care. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to characterize the reports on surgical volume (SV) in the existing literature by using a systematic review to assess studies that examine surgical procedures as a ratio of a population (procedures/100,000 population)...
2023: Annals of Global Health
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Sri Harshini Malapati, Elie P Ramly, Johanna Riesel, Andrea L Pusic, Gordon K Lee, William P Magee, Peter M Nthumba
BACKGROUND: The need to address inequities in global surgical care has garnered increased attention since 2015, after the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery underscored the importance of ensuring safe, accessible, affordable, and timely surgical and anesthetic care. The vast unmet global plastic surgery needs make plastic surgery care essential in reducing the global burden of disease. In the past, many nonprofit organizations undertook humanitarian activities within low- and middle-income countries that were primarily service-provision oriented...
September 2023: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open
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Meskerem Aleka Kebede, Deng Simon Garang Tor, Tesfamariam Aklilu, Adane Petros, Martilord Ifeanyichi, Ezekiel Aderaw, Maeve Sophia Bognini, Darshita Singh, Rosemary Emodi, Rachel Hargest, Rocco Friebel
Progress on surgical system strengthening has been slow due to a disconnect between evidence generation and the information required for effective policymaking. This systematic mapping review sought to assess critical research gaps in the field of global surgery guided by the World Health Organisation Health Systems building block framework, analysis of authorship and funding patterns, and an exploration of emerging research partnership networks. Literature was systematically mapped to identify, screen, and synthesize results of publications in the global surgery field between 2015 and March 2022...
September 4, 2023: BMC Health Services Research
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Brian Kasagga, Berjo Dongmo Takoutsing, Darius Balumuka, Fortunate Ambangira, Derrick Kasozi, Margaret Amelia Namiiro, John Sekyanzi, Isaac Chebet, Jean Kizito Namatovu, Mercy Namazzi, Yusuf Sadiq, Boniface Mutatina, Ekwaro A Obuku, Emmanuel Alex Elobu
INTRODUCTION: Diseases addressed by surgical, obstetric, trauma and anaesthesia (SOTA) care are rising globally due to an anticipated rise in the burden of non-communicable diseases and road traffic accidents. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) disproportionately bear the brunt. Evidence-based policies and political commitment are required to reverse this trend. The Lancet Commission of Global Surgery proposed National Surgical and Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plans (NSOAPs) to alleviate the respective SOTA burdens in LMICs...
July 11, 2023: BMJ Open
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Siddhesh Zadey, Himanshu Iyer, Anveshi Nayan, Ritika Shetty, Swati Sonal, Emily R Smith, Catherine A Staton, Tamara N Fitzgerald, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci
For universal surgical, obstetric, trauma, and anesthesia care by 2030, the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) suggested tracking six indicators. We reviewed academic and policy literature to investigate the current state of LCoGS indicators in India. There was limited primary data for access to timely essential surgery, risk of impoverishing and catastrophic health expenditures due to surgery, though some modeled estimates are present. Surgical specialist workforce estimates are heterogeneous across different levels of care, urban and rural areas, and diverse health sectors...
June 2023: Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia
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Vaonandianina Ravelojaona, Xiya Ma, Marie-Fidèle Samison, Dominique Rabemalala, Ruben Ayala, Anjaramamy Ramamonjisoa, Hery H Andriamanjato, Voahangiseheno Ravoniaritsoa, Desmond T Jumbam, Lalatiana M Andriamanarivo
Efforts have been made to strengthen national health systems for safe, affordable, and timely surgical, obstetric, trauma, and anesthesia (SOTA) care since 2015 when the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) identified critical needs in improving access to essential surgical care for five billion people worldwide. Several governments have developed National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plans (NSOAPs) as a commitment to ensuring safe and accessible surgical care for all of their population. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) of Madagascar launched its NSOAP in May 2019, named Le Plan National de Développement de la Chirurgie a Madagascar (PNDCHM)...
June 28, 2023: Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia
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N L Fernandes, M Lilaonitkul, A Subedi, M D Owen
Maternal mortality rates are unacceptably high globally. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face challenges of an inadequate anaesthesia workforce, under-resourced healthcare systems and sub-optimal access to labour and delivery care, all of which negatively impact maternal and neonatal outcomes. In order to effect the changes in surgical-obstetric-anaesthesia workforce numbers advocated by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery to support the UN sustainable development goals, mass training and upskilling of both physician and non-physician anaesthetists is imperative...
August 2023: International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia
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Priti Patil, Priyansh Nathani, Juul M Bakker, Alex J van Duinen, Pranav Bhushan, Minal Shukla, Samir Chalise, Nobhojit Roy, Anita Gadgil
INTRODUCTION: The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) set the benchmark of 5000 procedures per 100,000 population annually to meet surgical needs adequately. This systematic review provides an overview of the last ten years of surgical volumes in Low and Middle- Income-Countries (LMICs). METHODOLOGY: We searched PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane, and EMBASE databases for studies from LMICs addressing surgical volume. The number of surgeries performed per 100,000 population was estimated...
May 16, 2023: World Journal of Surgery
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Ollie Ross, Rabina Shakya, Rishav Shrestha, Shristi Shah, Amita Pradhan, Rahul Shrestha, Pushkar Bhandari, Becky Paris, Kashim Shah, Anil Shrestha, Mark Zimmerman, Hannah Henrikson, Suresh Tamang, Ruma Rajbhandari
The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) recommends using specialist surgical workforce density as one of 6 core indicators for monitoring universal access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care. Using Nepal as a case study, we explored the capacity of a generalist workforce (led by a family physician or MD general practitioner and non-physician anaesthetist) to enable effective surgical delivery through task-shifting. Using a multiple-methods approach, we retrospectively mapped essential surgical care and the enabling environment for surgery in 39 hospitals in 25 remote districts in Nepal and compared it with LCoGS indicators...
2023: PLOS Glob Public Health
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Rafael H Pérez-Soto, Alicia Maybi Trolle-Silva, Gabriela Alejandra Buerba-Romero Valdés, Germán Esteban Sánchez-Morales, David Velázquez-Fernández, Antonio Ramos-De la Medina, Miguel F Herrera
INTRODUCTION: The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery seeks to improve surgical care outcomes and equity for the world population through 6 indicators outlined in its 2030 Global Surgery Report. Our study aimed to estimate the percentage of the Mexican population with access to surgical care within the 2-hour distance range (indicator 1), the surgical workforce density (indicator 2), and the number of surgical procedures performed per 100,000 inhabitants (indicator 3) during the year 2020...
February 28, 2023: Global Health, Science and Practice
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Zahra Jaffry, Maureen Sabawo, William J Harrison, Alexander T Schade
BACKGROUND: A key strategy to building surgical capacity in low income countries involves training care providers, particularly in the interventions highlighted by the Lancet Commission for Global Surgery, including the management of open fractures. This is a common injury, especially in areas with a high incidence of road traffic incidents. The aim of this study was to use a nominal group consensus method to design a course on open fracture management for clinical officers in Malawi...
February 15, 2023: BMC Medical Education
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Andres Fernando Gomez Samper, Gabriel E Herrera-Almario, David Tulloch, Daniela Blanco, Linda Lucia Cardoso, Ricardo Elias Nunez Rocha, Roshni Rajan, Vicente Gracias, Joseph S Hanna
BACKGROUND: The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) surgical indicators have given the surgical community metrics for objectively characterizing the disparity in access to surgical healthcare. However, aggregate national statistics lack sufficient specificity to inform strengthening plans at the community level. We performed a second-stage analysis of Colombian surgical system service delivery to inform the development of resource- and context-sensitive interventions to inform a revision of the Decennial Public Health Plan for access inequity resolution...
June 2022: Lancet Reg Health Am
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Dennis Mazingi, Tanvir Kabir Chowdhury, Tasmiah Tahera Aziz, Nowrin Tamanna, Kokila Lakhoo, Tahmina Banu, Saqif Mustafa
INTRODUCTION: This article is part of the Research Topic 'Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict'. Children's surgical services are crucial, yet underappreciated, for children's health and must be sufficiently addressed to make and sustain progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). Despite their considerable burden and socioeconomic cost, surgical diseases have been relatively neglected in favor of communicable diseases living up to their inauspicious moniker: 'the neglected stepchild of global health'...
2023: Frontiers in Public Health
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Samantha J Sadler, Erickson F Torio, Alexandra J Golby
Global cancer surgery is an essential and complex component of oncologic care. This study aims to describe global cancer surgery literature since the 2015 Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and Cancer Surgery and perform a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis. A systematic search was performed in PubMed of global cancer surgery articles. Themes were extracted from the included studies based on the following criteria: (1) performed in low- or low-middle-income countries, (2) published during or after 2015, (3) published in peer-reviewed journals, (4) written in the English language, and (5) accessible to the authors...
January 3, 2023: Cancer
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Matheus Daniel Faleiro, Miguel Godeiro Fernandez, Jéssica Moreira Santos, Catarina Ester Gomes Menezes, João Vitor Sabadine Lima, Júlia Oliveira Dabien Haddad, Sofia Wagemaker Viana, Nivaldo Alonso
BACKGROUND: Brazil is a middle-income country that aims to provide universal health coverage, but its surgical system's efficiency has rarely been analyzed. In an effort to strengthen surgical national systems, the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery proposed bellwether procedures as quality indicators of surgical workforces. This study aims to evaluate regional inequalities in access to bellwether procedures and their associated mortality across the five Brazilian geographical regions...
December 1, 2022: World Journal of Surgery
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Carlos J Pérez-Rivera, Nicolás Lozano-Suárez, Alejandro Velandia-Sánchez, Camilo A Polanía-Sandoval, Juan P García-Méndez, Sharon V Idarraga-Ayala, Julián M Corso-Ramírez, Danny Conde-Monroy, Danna L Cruz-Reyes, Carlos F Durán-Torres, Juan G Barrera-Carvajal, Luisa Fernanda Rojas-Serrano, Laura Alejandra Garcia-Zambrano, Silvia Valentina Agudelo-Mendoza, Leonardo Briceno-Ayala, Paulo A Cabrera-Rivera
INTRODUCTION: Death following surgical procedures is a global health problem, accounting for 4.2 million deaths annually within the first 30 postoperative days. The fourth indicator of The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery is essential as it seeks to standardise postoperative mortality. Consequently, it helps identify the strengths and weaknesses of each country's healthcare system. Accurate information on this indicator is not available in Colombia, limiting the possibility of interventions applied to our population...
November 30, 2022: BMJ Open
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