Surgical care in district hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review

Z Bentounsi, S Sheik-Ali, G Drury, C Lavy - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To provide a general overview of the reported current surgical capacity and
delivery in order to advance current knowledge and suggest targets for further development …

[HTML][HTML] Using participatory action research to empower district hospital staff to deliver quality-assured essential surgery to rural populations in Malawi, Zambia, and …

C Pittalis, G Drury, G Mwapasa, E Borgstein… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background In 2017 the SURG-Africa project set out to institute a surgical, obstetric, trauma
and anesthesia (SOTA) care capacity-building intervention focused on non-specialist …

[HTML][HTML] Treating older children with clubfoot: results of a cross-sectional survey of expert practitioners

G Drury, TR Nunn, F Dandena, T Smythe… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Treating clubfoot in walking-age children is debated, despite studies showing that using the
Ponseti casting principles can correct the midfoot effectively. We aimed to explore …

[HTML][HTML] Policy options for surgical mentoring: Lessons from Zambia based on stakeholder consultation and systems science

H Broekhuizen, M Ifeanyichi, M Cheelo, G Drury… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Supervision by surgical specialists is beneficial because they can impart skills
to district hospital-level surgical teams. The SURG-Africa project in Zambia comprises a …

Surgical service monitoring and quality control systems at district hospitals in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia: a mixed-methods study

M Clarke, C Pittalis, E Borgstein… - BMJ Quality & …, 2021 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background In low-income and middle-income countries, an estimated one in three clinical
adverse events happens in non-complex situations and 83% are preventable. Poor quality …

[HTML][HTML] Surgical capacity, productivity and efficiency at the district level in Sub-Saharan Africa: A three-country study

M Zhang, J Gajewski, C Pittalis, M Shrime… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Efficient utilisation of surgical resources is essential when providing surgical
care in low-resources settings. Countries are developing plans to scale up surgery, though …

Neglected Surgical Disease Burden Assessment In Zambia: Research Protocol for Randomized Cross-Sectional Survey

M Cheelo, J Henry, C Pittalis, G Drury… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Neglected Surgical Diseases (NSDs) are treatable conditions that progress
beyond functional repair due to lack of timely access to surgical care and include cleft …

[CITATION][C] Christmas Dinner Auld Lang Syne: Rediscovering the Preparations and Components of Christmas Dinner in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

HG Drury - 2023 - digitalcommons.georgiasouthern …
Digital Commons@Georgia Southern - CURIO Symposium: Christmas Dinner Auld Lang Syne:
Rediscovering the Preparations and Components of Christmas Dinner in Late Medieval and …

[CITATION][C] Neglected Surgical Disease Burden Assessment In Zambia: Research Protocol For A Randomized Cross-Sectional Survey (vol 231, pg e26, 2020)

M Cheelo, J Henry, C Pittalis… - JOURNAL OF …, 2021 - … SCIENCE INC STE 800, 230 PARK …