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Perioperative Mortality Rate (POMR): a global indicator of access to safe surgery and anaesthesia
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posted on 2015-04-01, 00:00 authored by David WattersDavid Watters, M J Hollands, R L Gruen, K Maoate, H Perndt, R J McDougall, W W Morriss, V Tangi, K M Casey, K A McQueenThe unmet global burden of surgical disease is substantial. Currently, two billion people do not have access to emergency and essential surgical care. This results in unnecessary deaths from injury, infection, complications of pregnancy, and abdominal emergencies. Inadequately treated surgical disease results in disability, and many children suffer deformity without corrective surgery.
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World journal of surgeryVolume
39Issue
4Pagination
856 - 864Publisher
SpringerLocation
Berlin, GermanyPublisher DOI
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1432-2323Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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