Published in:
01-09-2013
Inherent Difficulties of Measuring the Burden of Surgical Disease in Resource-Poor Settings
Authors:
Ira L. Leeds, Lee A. Hugar, C. Adam Lorentz, Jahnavi Srinivasan, John G. Pattaras, Viraj A. Master
Published in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Issue 9/2013
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Excerpt
Manganiello et al. [
1] recently reported results of a first-of-its-kind study to capture the general burden of urologic disease in rural Haiti. The study highlighted that the burden of surgical disease in resource-poor settings has been difficult to quantify and that subspecialty data are particularly sparse. This paucity of data limits global health policymakers’ ability to focus more efforts on surgical therapeutics [
2,
3]. The authors’ investigation represents the increased recognition that descriptive studies are the necessary foundation for further addressing the global burden of surgical disease. …
