Impacting trauma care in resource-limited settings: Lessons learned from Tanzania's web-based trauma registry initiatives.

Background: Trauma significantly impacts Tanzanian healthcare. Lacking standardized hospital-based minimal trauma data sets places further challenges for policymakers. In other resource-limited countries, implementing trauma systems and registries has reduced injury mortalities.

Digitizing operating theater data in resource-limited settings: Understanding surgical care delivery post-implementation at Tanzanian referral hospital.

Background: Digitizing surgical data infrastructure is critical for policymakers to make informed decisions. The implementation of the first web-based operating theater (OT) recordings at Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute (MOI) represents significant advancements in data management for Tanzania. This study aims to share post-platform implementation outcomes, challenges, and insights gained offering guidance to settings facing similar data repository challenges.

Enhancing trauma care through innovative trauma and disaster team response training: A blended learning approach in Tanzania.

Background: In Tanzania, inadequate infrastructures and shortages of trauma-response training exacerbate trauma-related fatalities. McGill University's Centre for Global Surgery introduced the Trauma and Disaster Team Response course (TDTR) to address these challenges. This study assesses the impact of simulation-based TDTR training on care providers' knowledge/skills and healthcare processes to enhance patient outcomes.

Assessing Ethiopia's surgical capacity in light of global surgery 2030 initiatives: Is there progress in the past decade?

Background: Surgical, anesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) care plays a crucial role in global health, recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS). LCoGS outlines six indicators for integrating SAO services into a country's healthcare system through National Surgical Obstetrics and Anesthesia Plans (NSOAPs). In Ethiopia, surgical services progress lacks evaluation.