Patient follow-up after orthopaedic outreach trips–do we know whether patients are improving?

C Leversedge, S Castro, LMC Appiani, R Kamal… - World journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background The burden of traumatic musculoskeletal injuries falls greatest on low-and
middle-income countries (LMICs). To help address this burden, organizations host over …

Telemedicine in surgical care in low-and middle-income countries: a scoping review

EO Owolabi, T Mac Quene, J Louw, JI Davies… - World journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Access to timely and quality surgical care is limited in low-and middle-income
countries (LMICs). Telemedicine, defined as the remote provision of health care using …

Are we curing by cutting? A call for long-term follow up and outcomes research in global surgery interventions-perspective

A Luan, AE Mghase, N Meyers… - International Journal of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Success in global surgery interventions cannot be claimed until consistent long-term follow
up is achieved and corresponding outcomes are studied. However, post-operative outcomes …

Assessing the Success and Sustainability of Global Neurosurgery Collaborations: Systematic Review and Adaptation of the Framework for Assessment of …

AEK Ukachukwu, A Seas, Z Petitt, KZ Dai, NA Shlobin… - World Neurosurgery, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The high unmet neurosurgical burden in low-and middle-income countries has
necessitated multiple global neurosurgical collaborations. We identified these collaborations …

Insight Into the Clinical Practices of US-based Surgical Nongovernmental Organizations

PF Johnston, L Bloom, ZC Sifri - Journal of Surgical Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction A growing sector of humanitarian surgical nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs) is providing care in low-and middle-income countries. Minimal data exists regarding …

Considerations for resuming global surgery outreach programs during and after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

JR Stoehr, AH Jahromi, QD Chu, GB Zibari, AK Gosain - Surgery, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has disrupted the delivery of safe
surgical care worldwide. One specific aspect of global surgical care that has been severely …

The current status of global urology

KB Scotland, GM Watson - Current Bladder Dysfunction Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Everybody will be aware of the inequality in the provision of
healthcare across the planet, but relatively few people will be aware of the scale of the …

Coordination and Pilot Implementation of a Standardized Data Collection for Touching Hands

K Reasoner, D Lee, C Davidson, JS Pennings… - The Journal of Hand …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose Touching Hands is an American Society for Surgery of the Hand program that
provides hand surgeries to the world's underserved communities. The purpose of this study …

Expanding post-operative follow-up in rural Sierra Leone: A community-based protocol

V Padmanaban, S Jalloh, U Barrie, D Livingston… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Humanitarian surgeries are performed in low-and middle-income countries
(LMICs) to help address untreated surgical disease. Post-operative follow-up is challenging …

Developing a sustainable program for volunteer surgical care in low-income and middle-income countries

V Padmanaban, D Hoffman… - Oral and …, 2020 - oralmaxsurgery.theclinics.com
Volunteer medical missions to low-income and middle-income countries have been a
popular but unregulated method of providing care to underserved regions of the world as …