Introduction The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery proposed the perioperative mortality
rate (POMR) as one of the six key indicators of the strength of a country's surgical system …

Introduction/purpose The burden of pediatric surgical disease is largely unknown in low-and
middle-income countries such as Uganda where access to care is limited. Methods …

Expanding global access to safe surgical and anaesthesia care is crucial to meet the health
targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As global surgical volume increases …

Staggering statistics regarding the global burden of disease due to lack of surgical care
worldwide has been gaining attention in the global health literature over the last 10 years …

BACKGROUND: The health care systems of low-income countries have severely limited
capacity to treat surgical diseases and conditions. There is limited information about which …

Background Five billion people lack access to surgery. Accurate and complete data have
been identified as essential to the global scale-up of perioperative care. This study …

Introduction Clinical coding is often a mystery to us surgeons, but in actuality, it has a huge
bearing on the financial sustainability of our services. Given the rapid innovations in plastic …

The Mbarara Surgical Services Quality Assurance Database (Mbarara SQUAD) is an
outcomes database of surgical, obstetric and anaesthetic/critical care at Mbarara Regional …