Improving Access to Laparoscopy in Low-Resource Settings

Laparoscopy has numerous clinical benefits compared to laparotomy. However, a functional laparoscopy program requires significant investment and, as a result, remains unavailable for the majority of the world’s population in low- and middle-income countries. The effort to bring laparoscopy to low-re...

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Autores principales: Rosenbaum, Alan J., Maine, Rebecca G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31441628
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2573
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description Laparoscopy has numerous clinical benefits compared to laparotomy. However, a functional laparoscopy program requires significant investment and, as a result, remains unavailable for the majority of the world’s population in low- and middle-income countries. The effort to bring laparoscopy to low-resource settings has produced variable outcomes resulting from the challenges inherent to a complex surgical program. This paper highlights these shortcomings and identifies opportunities to improve future laparoscopy programs.
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spelling pubmed-67070902019-09-16 Improving Access to Laparoscopy in Low-Resource Settings Rosenbaum, Alan J. Maine, Rebecca G. Ann Glob Health Viewpoint Laparoscopy has numerous clinical benefits compared to laparotomy. However, a functional laparoscopy program requires significant investment and, as a result, remains unavailable for the majority of the world’s population in low- and middle-income countries. The effort to bring laparoscopy to low-resource settings has produced variable outcomes resulting from the challenges inherent to a complex surgical program. This paper highlights these shortcomings and identifies opportunities to improve future laparoscopy programs. Ubiquity Press 2019-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6707090/ /pubmed/31441628 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2573 Text en Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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