Background Risk of mortality following surgery in patients across Africa is twice as high as
the global average. Most of these deaths occur on hospital wards after the surgery itself. We …

Public health surveillance relies on standardised metrics to evaluate disease burden and
health system performance. Such metrics have not been developed for surgical services …

Background There is a need to increase access to surgical treatments in African countries,
but perioperative complications represent a major global health-care burden. There are few …

Background: As global initiatives increase patient access to surgical treatments, there
remains a need to understand the adverse effects of surgery and define appropriate levels of …

Background Emergency abdominal surgery is associated with poor patient outcomes. We
studied the effectiveness of a national quality improvement (QI) programme to implement a …

Background. Meta-analyses of the implementation of a surgical safety checklist (SSC) in
observational studies have shown a significant decrease in mortality and surgical …

Background The Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality was established in 2002. A
10‐year analysis suggested it was the primary driver in the subsequent fall in surgeon …

Background Surgical mortality data are collected routinely in high-income countries, yet
virtually no low-or middle-income countries have outcome surveillance in place. The aim …

Background. Non-cardiac surgical morbidity and mortality is a major global public health
burden. Sub-Saharan African perioperative outcome data are scarce. South Africa (SA) …

Background Clinical outcomes after major surgery are poorly described at the national level.
Evidence of heterogeneity between hospitals and health-care systems suggests potential to …