The Lancet. Global health
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The Lancet. Global health · May 2020
Use of the six core surgical indicators from the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery in Colombia: a situational analysis.
Surgical, anaesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) health-care system strengthening is needed to address the emergency and essential surgical care that approximately 5 billion individuals lack globally. To our knowledge, a complete, non-modelled national situational analysis based on the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery surgical indicators has not been done. We aimed to undertake a complete situation analysis of SAO system preparedness, service delivery, and financial risk protection using the core surgical indicators proposed by the Commission in Colombia, an upper-middle-income country. ⋯ Zoll Medical.