全球手术室分布和脉冲氧计供应:根据报告的数据进行估计
Luke M Funk1, Thomas G Weiser, William R Berry
1Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. lfunk@partners.org
Lancet (London, England)
|July 6, 2010
概括
全球外科手术的获取不平等,低收入地区每10万人有不到两个手术室. 许多手术室缺乏必要的脉冲氧计,影响全球数十亿人的手术安全.
科学领域:
- 全球健康 全球健康
- 手术服务手术服务.
- 健康 公平 卫生 公平
背景情况:
- 资源不足往往限制了全球手术服务的可用性.
- 手术室和必要的监测设备,如脉冲氧计,是手术能力的关键指标.
- 在全球范围内,在获得外科护理方面存在重大差异.
研究的目的:
- 为了估计全球手术室的分布.
- 为量化脉冲氧计在全球手术室的可用性.
- 确定全球不同地区手术资源的差异.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自92个国家的769家医院的数据,这些医院参与了世卫组织的安全手术拯救生命倡议.
- 计算了手术室与医院病床的比例,并估计了每10万人的手术室.
- 调查了72个国家的麻醉提供者,并使用回归建模来评估脉冲氧计可用性.
主要成果:
- 手术室的可用性差异很大,从撒哈拉以南非洲西部每10万人的1.0%,到东欧每10万人的25.1.
- 低收入地区为22亿人口提供服务,每10万人中只有不到两个手术室.
- 全球大约19.2%的手术室缺乏脉冲氧计,影响了手术安全.
结论:
- 公共卫生战略和监测的紧急改进是必要的.
- 解决手术接入方面的差异对20多亿人来说至关重要.
- 加强资源配置和监测对于改善全球外科护理至关重要.
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