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ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie

Challenges and opportunities in providing high-quality surgical care in Canada.

David Pace, Steven Quigley, Lesley Johnston

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Article in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

3 citing papers 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David PaceFrom the Discipline of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL (Pace, Quigley); and the Discipline of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL (Johnston) dpace@mun.ca.
Steven QuigleyFrom the Discipline of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL (Pace, Quigley); and the Discipline of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL (Johnston).
Lesley JohnstonFrom the Discipline of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL (Pace, Quigley); and the Discipline of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL (Johnston).
Memorial University of Newfoundland · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The provision of surgical care in Canada requires substantial improvement. In this commentary, we use the US Institute of Medicine's framework for assessing the quality of health care to explore system-wide challenges that affect surgical outcomes in Canada. Challenges include surgical wait times, long travel times for surgery, human resource constraints, equitable access to surgery, limited collection of data about the surgical pathway, a lack of transparency in the reporting of surgical outcomes and a lack of incentives for hospital systems to achieve high-quality outcomes. We propose solutions supported by available literature to help overcome some of these challenges.

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Delivery of Health CareQuality of Health CareCanadaHospitalsHumans

Identifiers

PMID38056904
PMCPMC10713200
OpenAlexW4389399115

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