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Tracking perioperative mortality and maternal mortality: challenges and opportunities

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Access to surgery remains inequitable worldwide, with 5 billion people lacking safe and affordable surgical and anaesthesia care when needed.1 The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery was convened in 2013 to assess the state of surgery around the world, provide recommendations for improving access, and propose indicators for assessing national surgical systems. A key safety indicator is the perioperative mortality rate (POMR). This is defined by the Commission as the number of all-cause deaths before discharge in patients who have undergone a procedure in an operating theatre, divided by the total number of procedures, and presented as a percentage.

Source: The Lancet Global Health

DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(16)30082-1

Authors: Sumedha Arya, Joshua Ng-Kamstra, John G Meara, Ana Langer

Institutions: University of Toronto, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Global Health and Surgery

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $6,680