Surgery

Half a billion surgical cases: Aligning surgical delivery with best-performing health systems

Mark G Shrime, Kimberly M Daniels, John G Meara
 

Challenging the barriers to accessing surgery in low-resource settings:  Lessons learned from burns 

Greg Elder, Richard A Murphy, Patrick Herard et al
 

Towards a standard approach to measurement and reporting of preoperative mortality rate as a global indicator for surgery 

Roshan Riyaratnam, Charlotta L Palmqvist, Phil Hider et al
 

An integrated approach to surgery and primary care systems strengthening in low- and middle-income countries:  Building a platform to delivery across the spectrum of disease

Ashwin Vasan, Carley E Hudelson, Sarah LM Greenberg
 

Financial catastrophe, treatment discontinuation and death associated with surgically operable cancer in South-East Asia:  Results from the ACTION Study 

The ACTION Study Group
 

Cost of surgery in a low-income setting in eastern Uganda 

Jenny Löfgren, Jude Mulowooza, Pär Nordin et al
 

Met and unmet needs for surgery in Sierra Leone:  A comprehensive, retrospective, countrywide survey from all health care facilities performing operations in 2012

Håkon A. Bolkan, Johan Von Schreeb, Mohamed M. Samai et al
 

Editor’s note

Michael G Sarr, Kevin E Behrns, Andrew L Warshaw
 

The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery – Global Surgery 2030:  Evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare and economic development 

John G Meara, Sarah LM Greenberg
 

Assessing cesarean section and inguinal hernia repair as proxy indicators of the total number of surgeries performed in Sierra Leone in 2012 

Anders W Bjerring, Marius E Lier, Siri Malene Rød et al
 

Injury prevalence and causality in developing nations: Results from a countrywide population-based survey in Nepal 

Shailvi Gupta, Evan G Wong, Sarthak Nepal et al
 

Operative trauma in low-resource settings:  The experience of Medecins Sans Frontiers in environments of conflict, post conflict, and disaster 

Evan G Wong, Lynette Dominguez, Miguel Trelles et al
 

Surgical need in an aging population:  A cluster-based household survey in Nepal 

Barclay T Steward, Evan Wong, Shailvi Gupta et al
 

Use of major surgery in south India:  A retrospective audit or hospital claim data from a large, community health insurance program 

Maaz Shaikh, Mark Woodward, Kazem Rahimi et al

The Lancet Global Health

Global access to surgical care:  a modeling study

Blake C Alkire, Nakul P Raykar, Mark G Shrime et al

Estimated need for surgery worldwide based on prevalence of diseases: a modelling strategy for the WHO Global Health Estimate

John Rose, Thomas G Weiser, Phil Hider, Leona Wilson, Russell L Gruen, Stephen W Bickler

Global economic consequences of selected surgical diseases: a modelling study

Blake C Alkire, Mark G Shrime, Anna J Dare, Jeffrey R Vincent, John G Meara

Timing and cost of scaling up surgical services in low-income and middle-income countries from 2012 to 2030: a modelling study

Stéphane Verguet, Blake C Alkire, Stephen W Bickler, Jeremy A Lauer, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, George Molina, Thomas G Weiser, Gavin Yamey, Mark G Shrime

Catastrophic expenditure to pay for surgery worldwide: a modelling study

Mark G Shrime, Anna J Dare, Blake C Alkire, Kathleen O'Neill, John G Meara

Global burden of surgical disease: an estimation from the provider perspective

Mark G Shrime, Stephen W Bickler, Blake C Alkire, Charlie Mock

Global distribution of surgeons, anaesthesiologists, and obstetricians

Hampus Holmer, Adam Lantz, Teena Kunjumen, Samuel Finlayson, Marguerite Hoyler, Amani Siyam, Hernan Montenegro, Edward T Kelley, James Campbell, Meena N Cherian, Lars Hagander

International migration of surgeons, anaesthesiologists, and obstetricians

Adam Lantz, Hampus Holmer, Samuel Finlayson, Thomas C Ricketts, David Watters, Russell Gruen, Lars Hagander