作者
COVIDSurg Collaborative*† NIHR Global Health Unit on Global Surgery*
发表日期
2022/10
期刊
The Lancet
简介
Background
The 2015 Lancet Commission on global surgery identified surgery and anaesthesia as indispensable parts of holistic health-care systems. However, COVID-19 exposed the fragility of planned surgical services around the world, which have also been neglected in pandemic recovery planning. This study aimed to develop and validate a novel index to support local elective surgical system strengthening and address growing backlogs.
Methods
First, we performed an international consultation through a four-stage consensus process to develop a multidomain index for hospital-level assessment (surgical preparedness index; SPI). Second, we measured surgical preparedness across a global network of hospitals in high-income countries (HICs), middle-income countries (MICs), and low-income countries (LICs) to explore the distribution of the SPI at national, subnational, and hospital levels. Finally, using …
学术搜索中的文章
JC Glasbey, TEF Abbott, A Ademuyiwa, A Adisa… - The Lancet, 2022
C Collaborative, B Dhondt, M Vandeputte… - Lancet, 2022