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Operative volume and surgical case distribution in Uganda’s public sector: a stratified randomized evaluation of nationwide surgical capacity

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-3920-9

Published Online: 2019-02-06

Published Print: 2019-12

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Authors

Albutt, Katherine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1735-7316
Punchak, Maria

Kayima, Peter

Namanya, Didacus B.

Shrime, Mark G.
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Massachusetts General Hospital

Harvard University Program in Global Surgery and Social Change

Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Global Surgery Fellowship
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Article History

Received: 24 July 2018

Accepted: 22 January 2019

First Online: 6 February 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The institutional review board (IRB) at Children’s Hospital Boston deemed this study exempt. The IRB at Mbarara University of Science and Technology and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology approved this study. Permission and verbal informed consent to participate was additionally obtained from each facility participating in the assessment. Verbal informed consent was deemed sufficient given the IRB exemption and the fact that no identifying information was collected from study participants. Permission was obtained from each facility to access surgical logbooks. All operative logbook data were kept in a secure location and immediately de-identified.

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