… pediatric surgical capacity in many LMICs has culminated in a devastating burden of avertable
disability … disease burden that can be averted by pediatric surgical intervention and the …

… -existent for most pediatric surgical conditions. The objective … a subset of key pediatric
congenital anomalies using a range of … Calculating the latter requires a disease-specific disability …

… accurately quantify the burden of pediatric surgical conditions… to surgical conditions can be
averted by scaling up surgical … for the DWs of anorectal malformations, which clinically can …

… While it is recognized that monitoring and measuring the burden … for Children's Surgery
guidelines for safe children's surgical … Congenital anomalies that cannot be prevented, however, …

… We used a proxy set of congenital anomalies across … This decision tree models pediatric
surgery for congenital … We used the averted DALY metric to quantify the disease burden of each …

… was to quantify the disease burden averted by a pediatric OR to … Pediatric surgical conditions
often involve anatomic defects that … Surgery for fatal congenital anomalies averted the most …

… congenital anomaly health burden could be averted through … neonatal surgery independent
of paediatric surgery and to … Quantitative analysis will be undertaken by calculating the …

… surgery has improved as pediatric surgical capacity has increased, and that the scale-up of
… are difficult to quantify. For example, patients born with congenital anomalies such as ARM …

… surgical care, the outcome was calculated as DALYs averted… impact of paediatric surgical
intervention by measuring the … . Quantifying the disability from congenital anomalies averted …

… pediatric surgery-specific disability weights, we were then able to estimate the BoD from
congenital malformations … disease into met (already surgically averted DALYs), unmet (avertable …