Background Indicators to evaluate progress towards timely access to safe surgical,
anaesthesia, and obstetric (SAO) care were proposed in 2015 by the Lancet Commission on …

Global surgery as an essential component of global health. Global surgery is the study and
practice of improving access to timely, quality, and affordable surgical care. It emphasizes …

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 …

Background: While primary data on the unmet need for surgery in low-and middle-income
countries is lacking, household surveys could provide an entry point to collect such data. We …

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of positive intervention on the
anxiety and the physiological and psychological aspects among preoperative and post …

Background In low-income and middle-income countries, an estimated one in three clinical
adverse events happens in non-complex situations and 83% are preventable. Poor quality …

Abstract Introduction The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery indicators for monitoring
anesthetic and surgical care allow the identification of access barriers, evaluate the safety of …

In 2015, the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) developed the Saving Lives
through Safe Surgery (SaLTS) initiative to improve national surgical care. Previous work led …

Aim To elicit oncology nurse leaders' perceptions and experiences of accessing, using and
interpreting report data at the unit level, and their suggestions for future reports. Background …

Background Understanding the burden of diseases requiring surgical care at national levels
is essential to advance universal health coverage. The PREvalence Study on Surgical …