Letter to global health agency leaders on the importance of surgical indicators

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9956, 2014, Pages 1748-

  Makasa, Emmanuel Malabo ^a  

^a Permanent Mission of Germany to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LETTER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LEADERSHIP; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGEON; UTILIZATION;

FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SURGEONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84910603513     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62012-2     Document Type: Letter

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