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Thomas G Weiser

Professor of Surgery
Verified email at stanford.edu
Cited by 24272

Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development

JG Meara, AJM Leather, L Hagander, BC Alkire… - The lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Remarkable gains have been made in global health in the past 25
years, but progress has not been uniform. Mortality and morbidity from common conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Cost-effectiveness of surgery and its policy implications for global health: a systematic review and analysis

TE Chao, K Sharma, M Mandigo, L Hagander… - The Lancet Global …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background The perception of surgery as expensive and complex might be a barrier to its
widespread acceptance in global health efforts. We did a systematic review and analysis of …

[HTML][HTML] Global burden of surgical conditions

SW Bickler, TG Weiser, N Kassebaum… - Disease control …, 2015 - books.google.com
Approximately 2 billion people lack access to emergency and essential surgical care (Funk
and others 2010). Most of the need is in rural and marginalized populations living in low-and …

[HTML][HTML] A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population

AB Haynes, TG Weiser, WR Berry… - New England journal …, 2009 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Surgery has become an integral part of global health care, with an estimated
234 million operations performed yearly. Surgical complications are common and often …

An estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data

TG Weiser, SE Regenbogen, KD Thompson… - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
Background Little is known about the amount and availability of surgical care globally. We
estimated the number of major operations undertaken worldwide, described their …

[HTML][HTML] Estimate of the global volume of surgery in 2012: an assessment supporting improved health outcomes

TG Weiser, AB Haynes, G Molina, SR Lipsitz… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background It was previously estimated that 234· 2 million operations were performed
worldwide in 2004. The association between surgical rates and population health outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] Size and distribution of the global volume of surgery in 2012

TG Weiser, AB Haynes, G Molina… - Bulletin of the World …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods For the 194 Member States of the World Health Organization, we searched
PubMed for studies and contacted key informants for reports on surgical volumes between …

Relationship between cesarean delivery rate and maternal and neonatal mortality

G Molina, TG Weiser, SR Lipsitz, MM Esquivel… - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Based on older analyses, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends
that cesarean delivery rates should not exceed 10 to 15 per 100 live births to optimize …

[HTML][HTML] Global access to surgical care: a modelling study

BC Alkire, NP Raykar, MG Shrime, TG Weiser… - The Lancet Global …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background More than 2 billion people are unable to receive surgical care based on
operating theatre density alone. The vision of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery is …

Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety …

AB Haynes, TG Weiser, WR Berry… - BMJ quality & …, 2011 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Objectives To assess the relationship between changes in clinician attitude and changes in
postoperative outcomes following a checklist-based surgical safety intervention. Design Pre …