1. The need to collect, aggregate, and analyze global anesthesia and surgery data
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Magdalena Gruendl, P. Niclas Broer, David Ljungman, Emmanuel Makasa, Sabrina Juran, Mark G. Shrime, Gregory L Peck, Stephanie J Klug, Jose Miguel Guzman, Lars Hagander, Justine Davies, John G. Meara, Adrian W. Gelb, Hampus Holmer, Isobel H Marks, and Walter D. Johnson
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Sustainable development ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Data collection ,business.industry ,030231 tropical medicine ,Aggregate (data warehouse) ,Psychological intervention ,General Medicine ,Information overload ,Surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Treatment modality ,Anesthesia ,Health care ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business ,Healthcare system - Abstract
In the Sustainable Development Goals era, there is a new awareness of the need for an integrated approach to healthcare interventions and a strong commitment to Universal Health Coverage. To achieve the goal of strengthening entire health systems, surgery, as a crosscutting treatment modality, is indispensable. For any health system strengthening exercise, baseline data and longitudinal monitoring of progress are necessary. With improved data capabilities, there are unparalleled possibilities to map out and understand systems, integrating data from many sources and sectors. Nevertheless, there is also a need to prioritize among indicators to avoid information overload and data collection fatigue. There is a similar need to define indicators and collection methodology to create standardized and comparable data. Finally, there is a need to establish data pathways to ensure clear responsibilities amongst national and international institutions and integrate surgical metrics into existing mechanisms for sustainable data collection. This is a call to collect, aggregate, and analyze global anesthesia and surgery data, with an account of existing data sources and a proposed way forward.
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- 2018
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