Objective: We aimed to define a globally applicable list of surgical procedures, or “basket,”
which could represent a health system's capacity to provide surgical care and standardize …

Objective To investigate morbidity for patients after the primary surgical management of
cervical cancer in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Methods The Pubmed …

Background Fostering the success of surgical trainees from low-and middle-income
countries (LMICs) plausibly addresses the existing workforce deficit in a sustainable …

Background Health systems for surgical care for children in low-and middle-income
countries remain poorly understood. Our goal was to characterize the delivery of surgical …

Background Access to surgery is a challenge for low-income countries like Malawi due to
shortages of specialists, especially in rural areas. District hospitals (DH) cater for the …

Background Postoperative recovery is a multipronged process of reclaiming the
preoperative autonomy or dependency in daily life activities, resuming control over the …

Background Surgical care holds significant importance in healthcare, especially in low and
middle-income countries, as at least 50% of the 4.2 million deaths within the initial 30 days …

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 …

Surgical diseases account for 30% of the global burden of disease and 70% of the global
population lacks access to safe anaesthesia and surgical care. The next step for all those …

Abstract Purpose of Review To examine the comparability and utility of perioperative
mortality rate (POMR) as a key global surgery metric and the added potential for mortality …