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SURGERY AS AN ESSENTIAL AND COST-EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION With the decline in the burden of commun...

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INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITION Global health is the health of populations in the global context. Gl...

CH A P T E R

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ESSENTIAL SURGERY THROUGH SURGICAL HEAL THCARE DELIVERY PLATFORMS The 44 essential surgeries list...

FURTHER READING Bath M, Bashford T , Fitzgerald JE. What is ‘global surgery’? Defining the multidi...

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When things go wrong: open disclosure Communicating honestly with patients after an adverse event...

teamwork errors Operating theatres have been described as ‘among the most - complex political, so...

The person approach Human performance principles tell us that humans are fallible and that errors...

The system approach Health systems add complex organisational structures to human fallibility , t...

UNDERSTANDING PATIENT SAFETY

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Surgical Safety Checklist B efore induction of anaesthesia B efore skin incision (with nurse, ana...

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Situation awareness: identifying