ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2018
The National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plan (NSOAP): Recognition and Definition of an Empirically Evolving Global Surgery Systems Science Comment on "Global Surgery - Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa".
Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Governance and policy in global neurosurgery: a scoping review of national and international efforts.Neurosurgical review · 2025Article
- Bridging the Gap: The Challenge of Conducting Clinical Trials in Sub-Saharan Africa.Anesthesia and analgesia · 2025Article
- National Surgical Healthcare Policy Development and Implementation: Where do We Stand in Africa?World journal of surgery · 2023Article
- An Urgent Need for a Common Framework for the Articulation, Design and Reporting of Surgical System Strengthening Interventions Comment on "Improving Access to Surgery Through Surgical Team Mentoring - Policy Lessons From Group Model Building With Local Stakeholders in Malawi".International journal of health policy and management · 2022Article
- Global Surgery Opportunities for General Surgery Residents: Are We Making Progress?The Journal of surgical research · 2022Article
- A granular analysis of service delivery for surgical system strengthening: Application of the Lancet indicators for policy development in Colombia.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2022Article
- Surgical capacity, productivity and efficiency at the district level in Sub-Saharan Africa: A three-country study.PloS one · 2022Article
- Which Surgical Operations Should be Performed in District Hospitals in East, Central and Southern Africa? Results of a Survey of Regional Clinicians.World journal of surgery · 2021Article
- Global Surgery Priorities: A Response to Recent Commentaries.International journal of health policy and management · 2019Article
- What is 'global surgery'? Defining the multidisciplinary interface between surgery, anaesthesia and public health.BMJ global health · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
- Comment on
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In 2015, the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) working groups developed a National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plan (NSOAP) framework to guide national surgical system development globally predicated on six data points (indicators) which can assess surgical systems. Zambia as well as other subSaharan Africa (SSA) countries have forged ahead in designing and implementing interventions based on LCoGS indicators collected to inform NSOAP. Concurrently, the Zambian team and others have recognized the need for rigorous scientific inquiry to assess and iteratively improve upon the NSOAP process and outputs. Based on the Zambian experience, as well as that of ours in Colombia, we have identified "core principles" through convergent works which inform a scientific framework through which NSOAP can be evaluated. We propose that when contextualized, participatory action research (PAR) and dissemination and implementation science are methodologies upon which a robust framework can be developed to achieving objective and iterative NSOAP evaluation, and ultimately universal health coverage as envisioned by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.