ArticleWorld neurosurgery: X2020
Task-Sharing for Emergency Neurosurgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study in the Philippines.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Emergency Neurosurgery Performed by General Surgeons: A Systematic Review.World journal of surgery · 2022Pooled it
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- Comparative outcomes for pediatric cranial procedures by general surgeons and neurosurgeons in a tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025Article
- The Power of Advocacy in Global Neurosurgery.Neurosurgery · 2025Review
- Emergency medicine research in the Philippines: A scoping review.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2023Article
- Task Sharing in Global Cardiac Surgery: A Scoping Review.Annals of thoracic surgery short reports · 2023Article
- Multimodal Simulation of a Novel Device for a Safe and Effective External Ventricular Drain Placement.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Perception and Impact of Relative Value Units (RVUs) and Quality-of-Care Compensation in Neurosurgery: A Literature Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Letter to the Editor "Service and Training During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from a Neurosurgical Center in the Philippines".World neurosurgery · 2020Article
- Global Perspectives on Task Shifting and Task Sharing in Neurosurgery.World neurosurgery: X · 2020Article
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10 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveThe safety and effectiveness of task-sharing (TS) in neurosurgery, delegating clinical roles to non-neurosurgeons, is not well understood. This study evaluated an ongoing TS model in the Philippines, where neurosurgical workforce deficits are compounded with a large neurotrauma burden.
methodsMedical records from emergency neurosurgical admissions to 2 hospitals were reviewed (January 2015-June 2018): Bicol Medical Center (BMC), a government hospital in which emergency neurosurgery is chiefly performed by general surgery residents (TS providers), and Mother Seton Hospital, an adjacent private hospital where neurosurgery consultants are the primary surgeons. Univariable and multivariable linear and logistic regression compared provider-associated outcomes.
resultsOf 214 emergency neurosurgery operations, TS providers performed 95 and neurosurgeons, 119. TS patients were more often male (88.4% vs. 73.1%;
conclusionsThis study, one of the first to examine outcomes of neurosurgical TS, shows that a strategic TS model for emergency neurosurgery produces comparable outcomes to the local neurosurgeons.
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