• 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 ...