Surgically avertable burden of digestive diseases at first-level hospitals in low and middle-income regions

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 411-419

  Higashi, Hideki ^a,b   Barendregt, Jan J ^b   Kassebaum, Nicholas J ^a,c   Weiser, Thomas G ^d   Bickler, Stephen W ^e   Vos, Theo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMORAL HERNIA; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MORTALITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCALE UP; SOCIAL STATUS; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; COST OF ILLNESS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL; INCOME;

COST OF ILLNESS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCOME;

EID: 84923581576     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2014.07.009     Document Type: Article

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