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

      Glasbey, James C; Abbott, Tom EF; Ademuyiwa, Adesoji; Adisa, Adewale; Alameer, Ehab; Alshryda, Sattar; Augestad, Knut Magne; Søreide, Kjetil; Singh, Banipal Gurpreet; Arnaud, Alexis P; Bankhead-Kendall, B.; Abou Chaar, MK; Chaudhry, Daoud; Costas-Chavarri, Ainhoa; Cunha, MF; Davies, Justine I; Desai, A.; Elhadi, Muhammed; Fiore, Marco; Fitzgerald, J. Edward; Fourtounas, M.; Fowler, Alex James; Futaba, Kay; Gallo, Gaetano; Ghosh, Dhruva; Gujjuri, RR; Hamilton, Rebecca; Haque, Parvez; Harrison, Ewen M.; Hutchinson, Peter; Hyman, Gabriella; Isik, Arda; Jayarajah, Umesh; Kaafarani, Haytham MA; Kadir, Bryar; Lawani, Ismail; Lederhuber, Hans; Li, Elizabeth; Löffler, Markus W; Lorena, Maria Aguilera; Mann, Harvinder; Martin, Janet; Mazingi, Dennis; McClain, Craig D.; McLean, Kenneth A; Meara, John G.; Ramos-De la Medina, Antonio; Mengesha, Mengistu; Minaya, Ana; Modolo, Maria Marta; Moore, Rachel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background 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 ...
    • Global surgery, obstetric, and anaesthesia indicator definitions and reporting: An Utstein consensus report 

      Davies, Justine I; Gelb, Adrian W.; Gore-Booth, Julian; Martin, Janet; Mellin-Olsen, Jannicke; Åkerman, Christina; Ameh, Emmanuel A.; Biccard, Bruce M.; Braut, Geir Sverre; Chu, Kathryn M.; Derbew, Miliard; Ersdal, Hege Langli; Guzman, Jose Miguel; Hagander, Lars; Haylock-Loor, Carolina; Holmer, Hampus; Johnson, Walter; Juran, Sabrina; Kassebaum, Nicolas J.; Lærdal, Tore; Leather, Andrew J.M.; Lipnick, Michael S.; Ljungman, David; Makasa, Emmanuel Malabo Mwenda; Meara, John G.; Newton, Mark W.; Østergaard, Doris; Reynolds, Teri; Romanzi, Lauri J.; Santhirapala, Vatshalan; Shrime, Mark G.; Søreide, Kjetil; Steinholt, Margit; Suzuki, Emi; Varallo, John E.; Visser, Gerard H.A.; Watters, David; Weiser, Thomas G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      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. These aimed to capture access to ...
    • Immediate and long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delivery of surgical services 

      Søreide, Kjetil; Hallet, Julie; Matthews, Jeffrey B.; Schnitzbauer, Andreas Anton; Line, Pål Dag; Lai, Paul B.S.; Otero, Javier; Callegaro, Dario; Warner, Shelley G.; Baxter, Nancy N.; Teh, Catherine S.C.; Ng-Kamstra, Joshua S.; Meara, John G.; Hagander, Lars E.; Lorenzon, Laura (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background The ongoing pandemic is having a collateral health effect on delivery of surgical care to millions of patients. Very little is known about pandemic management and effects on other services, including delivery ...