Key result
Existing global surgical metrics have largely not been applied to children's surgery, leaving significant data gaps in assessing disease burden, infrastructure, human resources, and quality of care.
Why the study?
Relevant, valid, and practical metrics are needed to quantify need and progress in global pediatric surgery and monitor systems performance, as most existing surgical metrics have not yet been applied to children's surgery.
There is a critical need to apply and develop surgical metrics specifically for global pediatric surgery to address current data gaps in disease burden and quality of care.
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Urgent need for pediatric-specific surgical metrics to address global gaps; leaves open standardized assessment of disease burden and care quality.
There is a need for relevant, valid, and practical metrics to better quantify both need and progress in global pediatric surgery and for monitoring systems performance. There are several existing surgical metrics in use, including disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), surgical backlog, effective coverage, cost-effectiveness, and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery indicators. Most of these have, however, not been yet applied to children's surgery, leaving therefore significant data gaps in the burden of disease, infrastructure, human resources, and quality of care assessments in the specialty. This chapter reviews existing global surgical metrics, identifies settings where these have been already applied to children's surgery, and highlights opportunities for further inquiry in filling the knowledge gaps. Directing focused, intentional knowledge translation efforts in the identified areas of deficiency will foster the maturation of global pediatric surgery into a solid academic discipline able to contribute directly to the cause of improving the lives of children around the world.
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Poenaru et al. (2018) conducted a review in Global pediatric surgery. Global surgical metrics was evaluated. Existing global surgical metrics have largely not been applied to children's surgery, leaving significant data gaps in assessing disease burden, infrastructure, human resources, and quality of care.
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