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ArticleBMJ global health2023

Recommendations for developing effective and safe paediatric and congenital heart disease services in low-income and middle-income countries: a public health framework.

Babar S Hasan, Areesh Bhatti, Shazia Mohsin, Paul Barach, Eltayeb Ahmed, Sulafa Ali, Muneer Amanullah, Annette Ansong, Tahmina Banu, Andrea Beaton and 37 more

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Article in BMJ global health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

47 authors.

Babar S Hasan *Division of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan drbabarhasan@yahoo.com.
Areesh Bhatti *Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Shazia MohsinDivision of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan.
Paul BarachDepartment of Public Health and Anesthesiology, Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Eltayeb AhmedBristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK.
Sulafa AliDepartment of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
Muneer AmanullahDivision of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan.
Annette AnsongDivision of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital, The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Tahmina BanuDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Chittagong Research Institute for Children, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Andrea BeatonThe Heart Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Ralph Morton BolmanUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Bruna Cury BorimDepartment of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, Hospital da Criança e Maternidade, CardioPedBrazil, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil.
John P BreinholtDivision Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, Penn State Health Children's Hospital, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
Edward CallusClinical Psychology Service, IRCCS Policlinico San Danato, San Donato Milanese, Lombardia, Italy.
Massimo CaputoTranslational Health Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Marcelo CardarelliCo-Founder, William Novick Cardiac Alliance, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Tomas Chalela HernandezInstituto de Cardiopatías Congénitas, Fundación Cardioinfantíl-La Cardio, Bogota, Colombia.
Ulisses Alexandre CrotiDepartment of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, Hospital da Criança e Maternidade, CardioPedBrazil, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil.
Yayehyirad M EjiguDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, King Faisal Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda.
Kathleen FentonNational Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Anu GomanjuKathmandu Institute of Child Health, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Ashraf S HarahshehDivision of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital, The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2622-573X
Peter HessleinChildren's HeartLink, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Christopher Hugo-HammanDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Sohail KhanDepartment of Cardiology, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan.
Jacques KpodonuDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Raman Krishna KumarDepartment of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Kathy J JenkinsDepartment of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Kokila LakhooNuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Mahim MalikDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
Sanjiv NichaniLeicester Children's Hospital, Leicester, East Midlands, UK.
William M NovickUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center-Global Surgery Institute, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
David OvermanDivision of Cardiac Surgery, The Children's Heart Clinic, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Alexis Palacios-Macedo QuenotInstituto Nacional de Pediatria, Mexico City, Mexico.
Ceeya Patton BolmanTeam Heart Inc, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA.
Dorothy PearsonGlobal Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Vijayakumar RajuGKNM Multispecialty Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Shelagh RossGlobal Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Nestor F SandovalDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Fundacion cardioinfantil -la Cardio.Instituto de cardiopatías Congenitas, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia.
Gary ShollerHeart Center for Children, Sydney Children's Hospital Network, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Rajesh SharmaApollo Indraprastha Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Fenny ShidhikaWindhoek Central Hospital, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia.
Sivakumar SivalingamNational Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia.
Amy VerstappenPresident, Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Dominique VervoortDivision of Cardiac Surgery, University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3142-0388
Liesl J ZühlkeDepartment of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Bistra ZhelevaChildren's HeartLink, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3209-0261

Funding

British Heart Foundation CH/17/1/32804Medical Research Council MR/S005242/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Developing CountriesHeart Defects, CongenitalChildContinuity of Patient CareHumansPublic HealthRegistriescardiovascular diseasepaediatricspublic healthreviewthoracic surgery

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PMID37142298
PMCPMC10163477

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