Quantifying the pediatric surgical need in Uganda: results of a nationwide cross-sectional, household survey.

PubWeight™: 0.80‹?›

🔗 View Article (PMID 27614904)

Published in Pediatr Surg Int on September 10, 2016

Authors

Elissa K Butler1, Tu M Tran2, Anthony T Fuller3,4, Alexa Brammell4, Joao Ricardo Vissoci2,3, Luciano de Andrade5,6, Fredrick Makumbi7, Samuel Luboga8, Christine Muhumuza7, Vincent F Ssennono9, Jeffrey G Chipman10, Moses Galukande11, Michael M Haglund2,3,12, Emily R Smith13,14

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
2: Duke University Global Health Institute, 310 Trent Drive, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
3: Division of Global Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
4: Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
5: State University of West of Parana, Unioeste, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.
6: Public Health Research Group, Unioeste, Toledo, Brazil.
7: Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda.
8: Department of Anatomy, Makerere University School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda.
9: Ministry of Health, Government of Uganda, Kampala, Uganda.
10: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
11: Department of Surgery, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
12: Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
13: Duke University Global Health Institute, 310 Trent Drive, Durham, NC, 27710, USA. emily.smith1@duke.edu.
14: Division of Global Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. emily.smith1@duke.edu.

Articles citing this

Epidemiology of pediatric surgical needs in low-income countries. PLoS One (2017) 0.75

Articles cited by this

Global cancer surgery: delivering safe, affordable, and timely cancer surgery. Lancet Oncol (2015) 4.90

Increasing access to surgical services in sub-saharan Africa: priorities for national and international agencies recommended by the Bellagio Essential Surgery Group. PLoS Med (2009) 1.66

Estimated need for surgery worldwide based on prevalence of diseases: a modelling strategy for the WHO Global Health Estimate. Lancet Glob Health (2015) 1.39

Surgical services for children in developing countries. Bull World Health Organ (2002) 1.38

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

Surgical capacity building in Uganda through twinning, technology, and training camps. World J Surg (2011) 1.16

Pilot testing of a population-based surgical survey tool in Sierra Leone. World J Surg (2012) 1.15

Paediatric surgery and anaesthesia in south-western Uganda: a cross-sectional survey. Bull World Health Organ (2010) 1.06

Generation of national political priority for surgery: a qualitative case study of three low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet (2015) 0.90

Is health care financing in Uganda equitable? Afr Health Sci (2009) 0.90

The burden of pediatric surgical conditions in low and middle income countries: a call to action. J Pediatr Surg (2012) 0.90

Surgery and anesthesia capacity-building in resource-poor settings: description of an ongoing academic partnership in Uganda. World J Surg (2013) 0.90

Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) Uganda: Update for Household Survey. World J Surg (2015) 0.89

Estimating pediatric surgical need in developing countries: a household survey in Rwanda. J Pediatr Surg (2014) 0.88

Household survey in Sierra Leone reveals high prevalence of surgical conditions in children. World J Surg (2013) 0.86

Outcomes and unmet need for neonatal surgery in a resource-limited environment: estimates of global health disparities from Kampala, Uganda. J Pediatr Surg (2014) 0.85

Conditions, preventable deaths, procedures and validation of a countrywide survey of surgical care in Nepal. Br J Surg (2015) 0.84

Paediatric surgery in Uganda. J Pediatr Surg (2014) 0.79

The burden of pediatric surgical disease in low-resource settings: Discovering it, measuring it, and addressing it. J Pediatr Surg (2015) 0.79

Unmet surgical needs in children: a household survey in Nepal. Pediatr Surg Int (2015) 0.78

Costs and cost-effectiveness of pediatric inguinal hernia repair in Uganda. World J Surg (2015) 0.78

The pediatric surgery workforce in low- and middle-income countries: problems and priorities. Semin Pediatr Surg (2015) 0.78