Correction to: Bariatric efficiency at an academic tertiary care center.

This article was updated to correct Adel Alhaj Saleh's name, incorrectly displayed as Adel A. Saleh. It is correct as displayed here: Adel (first name) Alhaj Saleh (last name).

Bariatric efficiency at an academic tertiary care center.

Background: Operating room (OR) efficiency requires coordinated teamwork between the staff surgeon, anesthesia team, circulating nurse, surgical technician, and surgical trainee or assistant. Bariatric cases present unique challenges including difficult airways, challenging intravenous access, use of specialized surgical equipment, and synchronized exchange of orogastric tubes. The high contribution margin of these complex bariatric procedures rests on OR efficiency.

Evaluation of care access and hypertension control in a community health worker driven non-communicable disease programme in rural Uganda: the chronic disease in the community project.

The burden of non-communicable diseases continues to grow throughout the developing world. Health systems in low- and middle-income regions face significant human resource shortages, which limit the ability to meet the growing need for non-communicable disease care. Specially trained community health workers may be useful in filling that provider gap.