Publications by authors named "Mohamed M Samai"

Background: Surgical services are essential components of health-care systems. Monitoring of surgical activity is important, but resource demanding. Simpler tools to estimate surgical volume, particularly in low-income countries, are needed.

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Background: Understanding a country's baseline operative actors and capacity is critical to improving the quality of services and outcomes. The aim of this study was to describe all operative providers and national operative production, to evaluate district and nationwide population rates for operations, and to estimate unmet operative need in Sierra Leone.

Methods: A nationwide, exhaustive, retrospective, facility-based study of operative actors and surgical procedures was performed in Sierra Leone.

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