Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries

<p><strong>Background</strong><br> 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 be...

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Main Authors: Glasbey, JC, Abbott, TEF, Ademuyiwa, A, Soleymani Majd, H
Other Authors: NIHR Global Health Unit on Global Surgery
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022