Implementing Liberia's poverty reduction strategy: An assessment of emergency and essential surgical care.

Acute care surgery and COVID-19 pandemic: the voice of emergency surgical services

During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, surgical services around the world were greatly affected by the need for organizational and infrastructure modifications, accelerated training of primary teams, and strategies to allow for patient flow due to the confinement and disruption of economic activities. Acute care surgery departments are one of the departments that presented the greatest num...

Identification and assessment of common errors in the admission process of patients in the Central Emergency Department of Imam Reza Hospital applying the prospective approach of "Failure Mode Effects Analysis" (FMEA)

Background and Aim : Emergency ward is among hospital areas with high risk of errors, thus, implementing measures to identify and correct the errors is essential. The object of this study is to identify and assess the errors of the process of admitting patients in Emergency Department of Imam Reza Hospital using Failure Mode Effects Analysis, as one of the tools to assess and manage risk, as we...

Financing for Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Risk Pooling & Risk-Sharing Arrangements; Essential Strategy for Overcoming Poverty Costs

Assessment of ambulance response time: a study in Tabriz Emergency Medical Center

Background: The emergency medical services system has a vital role in the timely treatment of victims and the reduction of injury and mortality rates. Ambulance response time is an essential variable in evaluating the quality of its services. The aim of this study was to determine the ambulance response time and to compare it according to background variables. Methods: This descriptive study ...

Implementing surgical services in a rural, resource-limited setting: a study protocol

INTRODUCTION There are well-established protocols and procedures for the majority of common surgical diseases, yet surgical services remain largely inaccessible for much of the world's rural poor. Data on the process and outcome of surgical care expansion, however, are very limited, and the roll-out process of rural surgical implementation in particular has never been studied. Here, we propose ...