Economic Analyses of Surgical Trips to the Developing World: Current Concepts and Future Strategies.

Jacob S Nasser, Kevin C Chung

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Review in Hand clinics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jacob S NasserComprehensive Hand Center, Michigan Medicine, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 2130 Taubman Center, SPC 5340, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5340, USA.

Kevin C ChungComprehensive Hand Center, Michigan Medicine, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 2130 Taubman Center, SPC 5340, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5340, USA. Electronic address: kecchung@med.umich.edu.

A. Alfred Taubman Health Care Center · USMichigan Medicine · US

Funding

Evidence-Based Research in Hand SurgeryK24AR053120 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CHUNG, KEVIN C · 2008 to 2018

$1.6M

NIAMS NIH HHS K24 AR053120

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The surgical burden of disease disproportionately affects individuals living in the developing world. In response, the surgical community has increased efforts to provide care to patients in these countries during short-term surgical trips. This article (1) summarizes the current concepts used in the economic evaluation of surgical outreach and (2) presents a conceptual model to describe the ideal approach to performing an economic analysis of surgical interventions in developing countries. This model may ensure that policymakers are provided with information to decrease cost and improve the access to specialty surgery in the developing world.

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Developing CountriesCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansMedical MissionsCost–benefitCost-effectivenessCost variationDeveloping worldEconomic analysesGlobal surgery

Identifiers

PMID31585597

DOI10.1016/j.hcl.2019.06.001

PMCPMC6779176

OpenAlexW2966967551

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