New global surgical and anaesthesia indicators in the World Development Indicators dataset

BMJ Global Health

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Raykar, Nakul P ^a   Ng Kamstra, Joshua S ^a,b   Bickler, Stephen ^c   Davies, Justine ^d,e   Greenberg, Sarah L M ^a,f   Hagander, Lars ^g   Johnson, Walt ^h   Leather, Andrew J M ^d   Kelly McQueen, K A ⁱ   Mukhopadhyay, Swagoto ^a,j   Suzuki, Emi ^k   Weiser, Thomas ^l   Shrime, Mark G ^a,m   Meara, John G ^a,n  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

ⁱ VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

ⁿ BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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EID: 85049763448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20597908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000265     Document Type: Review

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