Abstract:
INTRODUCTION:In recent years, surgical providers and advocates have engaged in a growing effort to establish metrics to estimate capacity for surgical services as well the burden of surgical diseases in resource-limited settings. The burden of disease (BoD) studies have established the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) as the primary metric to measure both disability and premature mortality. Nonetheless, DALY-based approaches present methodological challenges, some of which are unique to surgical conditions, not fully addressed through the multiple iterations of the BoD studies, including the most recent study. METHODS AND RESULTS:This paper examines these challenges in detail, including issues around age-weighting and discounting, and estimates of disability-weights for specific conditions. Surgical burden measurements of specific conditions, or through the assessment of hospital wards as platforms for service delivery, still have unresolved methodological hurdles. The 2010 BoD study addresses some of these issues, but many questions still remain. Other methods estimating surgical prevalence, backlogs in treatment, and disability incurred by delays in care may provide more practical approaches to disease burden that can be useful tools for clinicians and health advocates. CONCLUSIONS:These approaches warrant further exploration in LMICs and these debates require active engagement by surgical providers and advocates globally.
journal_name
World J Surgjournal_title
World journal of surgeryauthors
Gosselin R,Ozgediz D,Poenaru Ddoi
10.1007/s00268-013-2182-7subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-11-01 00:00:00pages
2507-11issue
11eissn
0364-2313issn
1432-2323journal_volume
37pub_type
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