Global neurosurgical workforce density—you cannot improve what you do not measure

Five million neurosurgical cases go untreated each year. This is in part due to the lack of neurosurgical care providers. The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies has spearheaded efforts to monitor the number of neurosurgical providers around the globe since 2016. In this perspective, we disc...

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Autores principales: Kanmounye, Ulrick Sidney, Ammar, Adam, Rolle, Myron, El Ouahabi, Abdessamad, Park, Kee B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8325789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34332646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41016-021-00252-2
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description Five million neurosurgical cases go untreated each year. This is in part due to the lack of neurosurgical care providers. The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies has spearheaded efforts to monitor the number of neurosurgical providers around the globe since 2016. In this perspective, we discuss why, when, and how the neurosurgical workforce should be measured.
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spelling pubmed-83257892021-08-02 Global neurosurgical workforce density—you cannot improve what you do not measure Kanmounye, Ulrick Sidney Ammar, Adam Rolle, Myron El Ouahabi, Abdessamad Park, Kee B. Chin Neurosurg J Letter to the Editor Five million neurosurgical cases go untreated each year. This is in part due to the lack of neurosurgical care providers. The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies has spearheaded efforts to monitor the number of neurosurgical providers around the globe since 2016. In this perspective, we discuss why, when, and how the neurosurgical workforce should be measured. BioMed Central 2021-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8325789/ /pubmed/34332646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41016-021-00252-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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