Cost-effectivness of Surgical Interventions in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)
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a Department of Surgery and Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America. b John F Kennedy School of Government and School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. c Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. d Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, MA, USA. Correspondence to Kelly...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1743-9191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2017.08.301