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Global population assessed for emergency surgical conditions (excluding trauma and obstetrics)
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Signals need for surgical capacity building in LMICs; leaves open scalable intervention strategies.
Emergency general surgical conditions impose a massive global health burden, with the majority of deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries where surgical capacity is severely inadequate.
Stewart et al. (2013) studied this question.
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