197. Bridging the Divide Between Antimicrobial Stewardship and Surgical Services: Successful Use of Handshake Stewardship with Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgical Services in Adult Patients at a Large Academic Medical Center
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DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.241
Abstract: Handshake stewardship has displayed promise in engaging providers in the pediatric population but literature in adults are lacking. Face-to-face interactions are proposed to improve antibiotic stewardship (ASP) efforts in challenging services that have low ASP… read more here.
Keywords: intervention; pancreato biliary; hepato pancreato; handshake stewardship ... See more keywords
Improving productivity, costs and environmental impact in International Eye Health Services: using the ‘Eyefficiency’ cataract surgical services auditing tool to assess the value of cataract surgical services
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjophth-2020-000642
Abstract: Objective Though one of the most common surgeries, there is limited information on variability of practices in cataract surgeries. ‘Eyefficiency’ is a cataract surgical services auditing tool to help global units improve their surgical productivity… read more here.
Keywords: productivity costs; tool; cataract surgical; surgical services ... See more keywords
Development and upgrading of public primary healthcare facilities with essential surgical services infrastructure: a strategy towards achieving universal health coverage in Tanzania
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DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-5057-2
Abstract: Background Infrastructure development and upgrading to support safe surgical services in primary health care facilities is an important step in the journey towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Quality health service provision together with equitable… read more here.
Keywords: status; health facilities; primary health; infrastructure ... See more keywords
Building back better children's surgical services toward universal health coverage: Perspectives from Bangladesh and Zimbabwe
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DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1073319
Abstract: Introduction This article is part of the Research Topic ‘Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict’. Children's surgical services are crucial, yet underappreciated, for children's health and must be sufficiently addressed… read more here.
Keywords: children surgical; health; toward universal; universal health ... See more keywords
Conceptualizing the Organization of Surgical Services Comment on "Decentralization and Regionalization of Surgical Care: A Review of Evidence for the Optimal Distribution of Surgical Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries".
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DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.60
Abstract: According to Iverson and colleagues' thoughtful analysis, decisions to decentralize or regionalize surgical services must take into account contextual realities that may impede the safe execution of certain delivery models in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs),… read more here.
Keywords: care; surgical services; middle income; income ... See more keywords