Surgical Care and Health Systems.

A Banner Year for Global Surgery: Now How to Make it Make a Difference on the Ground. World J Surg (2015) 0.83

Access to Medicines are an Essential Component of Global Surgery. World J Surg (2016) 0.75

Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world. Lancet (2010) 42.10

An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems. Lancet (2009) 10.53

Redefining global health-care delivery. Lancet (2013) 3.89

The neglect of the global surgical workforce: experience and evidence from Uganda. World J Surg (2008) 3.50

Addressing the Millennium Development Goals from a surgical perspective: essential surgery and anesthesia in 8 low- and middle-income countries. Arch Surg (2010) 3.45

Global health actors claim to support health system strengthening: is this reality or rhetoric? PLoS Med (2009) 2.60

Quantifying surgical capacity in Sierra Leone: a guide for improving surgical care. Arch Surg (2009) 2.49

A social explanation for the rise and fall of global health issues. Bull World Health Organ (2009) 2.38

Economic evaluation of surgically trained assistant medical officers in performing major obstetric surgery in Mozambique. BJOG (2007) 2.37

Physician-induced demand for surgery. J Health Econ (1986) 2.32

The impact of user fees on access to health services in low- and middle-income countries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2011) 2.22

Comprehensive national analysis of emergency and essential surgical capacity in Rwanda. Br J Surg (2012) 2.15

Systems thinking for strengthening health systems in LMICs: need for a paradigm shift. Health Policy Plan (2012) 2.00

Evaluating health systems strengthening interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: are we asking the right questions? Health Policy Plan (2012) 1.87

Strengthening health systems in poor countries: a code of conduct for nongovernmental organizations. Am J Public Health (2008) 1.82

Access to emergency and surgical care in sub-Saharan Africa: the infrastructure gap. Health Policy Plan (2011) 1.73

Implementing Liberia's poverty reduction strategy: An assessment of emergency and essential surgical care. Arch Surg (2011) 1.58

Orthopaedic clinical officer program in Malawi: a model for providing orthopaedic care. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2008) 1.57

Toward a consensus on guiding principles for health systems strengthening. PLoS Med (2010) 1.56

Health systems strengthening: a common classification and framework for investment analysis. Health Policy Plan (2010) 1.56

Assessment of capacity for surgery, obstetrics and anaesthesia in 17 Ghanaian hospitals using a WHO assessment tool. Trop Med Int Health (2010) 1.53

Rwandan surgical and anesthesia infrastructure: a survey of district hospitals. World J Surg (2011) 1.46

Health-systems strengthening: current and future activities. Lancet (2011) 1.45

Emergency and essential surgical services in Afghanistan: still a missing challenge. World J Surg (2010) 1.39

Challenges of surgery in developing countries: a survey of surgical and anesthesia capacity in Uganda's public hospitals. World J Surg (2012) 1.36

Liberian surgical and anesthesia infrastructure: a survey of county hospitals. World J Surg (2013) 1.36

Rethinking health systems strengthening: key systems thinking tools and strategies for transformational change. Health Policy Plan (2012) 1.34

Developing priorities for addressing surgical conditions globally: furthering the link between surgery and public health policy. World J Surg (2010) 1.34

Emergency, anaesthetic and essential surgical capacity in the Gambia. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 1.34

Interactions between Global Health Initiatives and country health systems: the case of a neglected tropical diseases control program in Mali. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2010) 1.26

Quantifying surgical and anesthetic availability at primary health facilities in Mongolia. World J Surg (2011) 1.13

Emergency and surgery services of primary hospitals in the United Republic of Tanzania. BMJ Open (2012) 1.10

Building and retaining the neglected anaesthesia health workforce: is it crucial for health systems strengthening through primary health care? Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.06

Surgical care in the Solomon Islands: a road map for universal surgical care delivery. World J Surg (2011) 1.05

Using global health initiatives to strengthen health systems: a civil society perspective. Glob Public Health (2011) 1.04

Survey of emergency and surgical capacity in the conflict-affected regions of Sri Lanka. World J Surg (2010) 1.01

Reforming health care in seven European nations. Health Aff (Millwood) (1991) 0.96

Measuring global surgical disparities: a survey of surgical and anesthesia infrastructure in Bangladesh. World J Surg (2013) 0.96

A survey of surgical capacity in rural southern Nigeria: opportunities for change. World J Surg (2012) 0.95

Survey of surgery and anesthesia infrastructure in Ethiopia. World J Surg (2012) 0.94

Provision of essential surgery in remote and rural areas of developed as well as low and middle income countries. Int J Surg (2010) 0.89

An opportunity for diagonal development in global surgery: cleft lip and palate care in resource-limited settings. Plast Surg Int (2012) 0.88

Key aspects of health policy development to improve surgical services in Uganda. World J Surg (2010) 0.84

Research electronic data capture (REDCap)--a metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support. J Biomed Inform (2008) 71.12

Stillbirths: why they matter. Lancet (2011) 4.07

The role of autophagy in mitochondria maintenance: characterization of mitochondrial functions in autophagy-deficient S. cerevisiae strains. Autophagy (2007) 3.14

Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence implicates a region on chromosome 11. Alcohol Clin Exp Res (2010) 2.99

Surgical intervention in childhood intermittent exotropia: current practice and clinical outcomes from an observational cohort study. Br J Ophthalmol (2012) 2.92

Selenium and vitamin E: cell type- and intervention-specific tissue effects in prostate cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst (2009) 2.34

Urologic disease in a resource-poor country. World J Surg (2013) 2.01

Shortage of doctors, shortage of data: a review of the global surgery, obstetrics, and anesthesia workforce literature. World J Surg (2014) 1.97

Critically assessing the Haiti earthquake response and the barriers to quality orthopaedic care. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2012) 1.86

Autophagy and the degradation of mitochondria. Mitochondrion (2010) 1.75

Economic analyses of rubella and rubella vaccines: a global review. Bull World Health Organ (2002) 1.72

Brief tool to measure risk-adjusted surgical outcomes in resource-limited hospitals. Arch Surg (2012) 1.59

The benefits of international rotations to resource-limited settings for U.S. surgery residents. Surgery (2012) 1.46

Projected lifetime risks and hospital care expenditure for traumatic injury. J Surg Res (2011) 1.39

Structure of the exosporium and sublayers of spores of the Bacillus cereus family revealed by electron crystallography. Mol Microbiol (2008) 1.35

Estimates of mortality attributable to influenza and RSV in the United States during 1997-2009 by influenza type or subtype, age, cause of death, and risk status. Influenza Other Respir Viruses (2014) 1.35

Antidepressant use in black and white populations in the United States. Psychiatr Serv (2008) 1.33

Effects of low-load resistance training combined with blood flow restriction or hypoxia on muscle function and performance in netball athletes. J Sci Med Sport (2012) 1.32

The relationship between the haemoglobin concentration and the haematocrit in Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Malar J (2008) 1.29

Effect of intraarticular injection of autologous adipose-derived mesenchymal stem and regenerative cells on clinical signs of chronic osteoarthritis of the elbow joint in dogs. Vet Ther (2008) 1.26

The Safe Motherhood Initiative and beyond. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 1.22

Determinants of salt sensitivity in black and white normotensive and hypertensive women. Hypertension (2003) 1.17

World Health Organization Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care: 2011 and beyond. World J Surg (2013) 1.16

Examining a common disease with unknown etiology: trends in epidemiology and surgical management of appendicitis in California, 1995-2009. World J Surg (2012) 1.16

Quantifying surgical and anesthetic availability at primary health facilities in Mongolia. World J Surg (2011) 1.13

The village-based midwife programme in Indonesia. Lancet (2008) 1.09

Surface architecture of endospores of the Bacillus cereus/anthracis/thuringiensis family at the subnanometer scale. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.07

Delivery of MDG 5 by active management with data. Lancet (2008) 1.06

Global health conferences: are they truly "global"? The Bethune Round Table paradigm for promoting global surgery. Can J Surg (2011) 1.06

Expanding laparoscopic cholecystectomy to rural Mongolia. World J Surg (2011) 1.04

US flu mortality estimates are based on solid science. BMJ (2006) 1.02

Perspectives on the role of fospropofol in the monitored anesthesia care setting. Anesthesiol Res Pract (2011) 1.02

Challenges of treating patients with chronic pain with dysphagia (CPD): physician and patient perspectives. Curr Med Res Opin (2013) 1.02

Use of the ODD-luciferase transgene for the non-invasive imaging of spontaneous tumors in mice. PLoS One (2011) 1.00

A review of duloxetine 60 mg once-daily dosing for the management of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, and chronic musculoskeletal pain due to chronic osteoarthritis pain and low back pain. Pain Pract (2012) 0.97

Arsenic stress activates MAP kinase in rice roots and leaves. Arch Biochem Biophys (2010) 0.97

Ratio of cesarean deliveries to total operations and surgeon nationality are potential proxies for surgical capacity in central Haiti. World J Surg (2013) 0.97

Do stigma, blame and stereotyping contribute to unsafe sexual behaviour? A test of claims about the spread of HIV/AIDS arising from social representation theory and the AIDS risk reduction model. Soc Sci Med (2010) 0.96

Influenza vaccination in elderly people. Lancet (2005) 0.96

Distance to hospital and utilization of surgical services in Haiti: do children, delivering mothers, and patients with emergent surgical conditions experience greater geographical barriers to surgical care? Int J Health Plann Manage (2012) 0.95

Burden of injuries avertable by a basic surgical package in low- and middle-income regions: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study. World J Surg (2015) 0.94

Endometrial endothelial cell steroid receptor expression and steroid effects on gene expression. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2004) 0.93

Rice mitogen activated protein kinase kinase and mitogen activated protein kinase interaction network revealed by in-silico docking and yeast two-hybrid approaches. PLoS One (2013) 0.91

New health care measures: emphasis on better management of postsurgical pain and postoperative nausea and vomiting. Hosp Pract (1995) (2014) 0.91

Dynamic risk factors in the misuse of opioid analgesics. J Psychosom Res (2012) 0.91

Continuous multimechanistic postoperative analgesia: a rationale for transitioning from intravenous acetaminophen and opioids to oral formulations. Pain Pract (2011) 0.91

The improving outcomes in intermittent exotropia study: outcomes at 2 years after diagnosis in an observational cohort. BMC Ophthalmol (2012) 0.90

Randomized clinical evaluation of self-screening for anal cancer precursors in men who have sex with men. Cytojournal (2006) 0.90

Serotonin syndrome following a single 50 mg dose of sertraline in a child. Clin Toxicol (Phila) (2008) 0.89

Use of near-real-time medical claims data to generate timely vaccine coverage estimates in the US: the dynamics of PCV13 vaccine uptake. Vaccine (2013) 0.89

An opportunity for diagonal development in global surgery: cleft lip and palate care in resource-limited settings. Plast Surg Int (2012) 0.88

Pediatric trauma at a government referral hospital in The Gambia. West Afr J Med (2003) 0.88

Regional differences in quality of care and outcomes for the treatment of acute coronary syndromes: an analysis from the get with the guidelines coronary artery disease program. Crit Pathw Cardiol (2010) 0.88

Mercury in bats from the northeastern United States. Ecotoxicology (2013) 0.87

Pediatric injury outcomes in racial/ethnic minorities in California: diversity may reduce disparity. JAMA Surg (2013) 0.87

Mercury in breeding saltmarsh sparrows (Ammodramus caudacutus caudacutus). Ecotoxicology (2011) 0.87

Enzyme-based therapy for autism spectrum disorders -- is it worth another look? Med Hypotheses (2002) 0.87

A successful model for laparoscopic training in Mongolia. Int Surg (2013) 0.87

Perspectives on transdermal scopolamine for the treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting. J Clin Anesth (2012) 0.86

Heritability of level of response and association with recent drinking history in nonalcohol-dependent drinkers. Alcohol Clin Exp Res (2012) 0.85

Diabetes self-management in a low-income population: impacts of social support and relationships with the health care system. Chronic Illn (2013) 0.85

Glucose control in critical illness using a web-based insulin dose calculator. Med Eng Phys (2007) 0.85

Genital human papillomaviruses among women of reproductive age in Jamaica. Rev Panam Salud Publica (2013) 0.84

The tell-tale heart: Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient. Hosp Pract (1995) (2013) 0.84

Living with diabetes on Buffalo, New York's culturally diverse West Side. Chronic Illn (2012) 0.84

Fixed-dose combinations for emerging treatment of pain. Expert Opin Pharmacother (2012) 0.84

Effects of resistance training combined with vascular occlusion or hypoxia on neuromuscular function in athletes. Eur J Appl Physiol (2013) 0.84

Projections for Achieving the Lancet Commission Recommended Surgical Rate of 5000 Operations per 100,000 Population by Region-Specific Surgical Rate Estimates. World J Surg (2015) 0.83

Surgical Care in Liberia and Implications for Capacity Building. World J Surg (2015) 0.82

Toxicological evaluation and metal bioavailability in pregnant rats following exposure to clay minerals in the diet. J Toxicol Environ Health A (2004) 0.82

Designing selective, high affinity ligands of 5-HT1D receptor by covalent dimerization of 5-HT1F ligands derived from 4-fluoro-N-[3-(1-methyl-4-piperidinyl)-1H-indol-5-yl]benzamide. J Med Chem (2008) 0.82

Proteomic Analysis of Soybean Roots under Aluminum Stress. Int J Plant Genomics (2011) 0.82

Surgical conditions account for the majority of admissions to three primary referral hospitals in rural Mozambique. World J Surg (2014) 0.81

Histological versus clinical cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C: does race/ethnicity really matter? Dig Dis Sci (2011) 0.81

Validation of a three-factor measurement model of dyspnea in hospitalized adults with heart failure. Heart Lung (2011) 0.81

Cecal bascule in a child: an unusual cause of postoperative bowel obstruction. J Pediatr Surg (2012) 0.80

Heritability of EEG coherence in a large sib-pair population. Biol Psychol (2007) 0.80

Pentoxifylline, Ciprofloxacin and Dexamethasone Improve the Ineffective Hematopoiesis in Myelodysplastic Syndrome Patients; Malignancy. Hematology (2000) 0.80

Involvement of the molecular chaperone Hspa5 in copper homeostasis in astrocytes. Brain Res (2012) 0.80

The prevalence of opioid-related major potential drug-drug interactions and their impact on health care costs in chronic pain patients. J Manag Care Spec Pharm (2014) 0.80

Gross and microscopic findings and investigation of the aetiopathogenesis of mycobacteriosis in a captive population of white-winged ducks (Cairina scutulata). Avian Pathol (2007) 0.80

An efficient risk adjustment model to predict inpatient adverse events after surgery. World J Surg (2014) 0.79

Pain after earthquake. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med (2012) 0.79

Heritability of bipolar EEG spectra in a large sib-pair population. Behav Genet (2006) 0.79

Metal tissue levels in Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) pups. Mar Pollut Bull (2008) 0.79

Extended-release formulations of tramadol in the treatment of chronic pain. Expert Opin Pharmacother (2011) 0.79

Genetic differentiation of poly I:C from B:9-23 peptide induced experimental autoimmune diabetes. J Autoimmun (2004) 0.79

Transcutaneous tibial implants: a surgical procedure for restoring ambulation after amputation of the distal aspect of the tibia in a dog. Vet Surg (2008) 0.79

Analysis of outpatient trauma referrals in a sub-Saharan African orthopedic center. World J Surg (2011) 0.78

What factors influence the production of orthopaedic research in East Africa? A qualitative analysis of interviews. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2015) 0.78

Rehabilitation and conditioning of sporting dogs. Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract (2005) 0.78

Beyond volunteerism: augmenting surgical care in resource-limited settings. Bull Am Coll Surg (2011) 0.78

Internalization of carbon black and maghemite iron oxide nanoparticle mixtures leads to oxidant production. Chem Res Toxicol (2010) 0.78

Designing opioids that deter abuse. Pain Res Treat (2012) 0.78

Drug-drug interaction between NSAIDS and low-dose aspirin: a focus on cardiovascular and GI toxicity. Expert Opin Drug Saf (2014) 0.78

Sequestered naltrexone in sustained release morphine or oxycodone - a way to inhibit illicit use? Expert Opin Drug Saf (2013) 0.78

Novel piperidinium and pyridinium agents as water-soluble acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for the reversal of neuromuscular blockade. Bioorg Med Chem Lett (2002) 0.77

Low back pain in a natural disaster. Pain Pract (2013) 0.77