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

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 992-1001

  Bolkan, Håkon A ^a,b,c   Von Schreeb, Johan ^d   Samai, Mohamed M ^e   Bash Taqi, Donald Alpha ^f   Kamara, Thaim B ^e,g   Salvesen, Øyvind ^b   Ystgaard, Brynjulf ^a,c   Wibe, Arne ^a,b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b CapaCare   (Norway)

^c TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE   (Sierra Leone)

^f MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

^g Department of Surgery   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SURVEY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIERRA LEONE; SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; INCIDENCE; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIERRA LEONE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84929297025     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2014.12.028     Document Type: Article

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