Priorities Article Working Group
This working group will develop an article that describes the recommended prioritization criteria, the mapping of the considered procedures to various curricula, and the outputs of that prioritization list.
Manuscript Drafts
Here you will find the latest draft of the article for download. After making your edits, please save the document with your initials following the previous editor’s initials (e.g. Manuscript 2_SELF_Priorities_v2_ab cd ef gh.docx) and upload your edited and/or commented Priorities Article draft to the drafts folder. We are aiming to submit this suite of articles to the Lancet or BMJ in February or March of 2024.
Key Resources
| Title | Authors | Date posted | Summary | Tags | Shared by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authorship Guidelines | SELF | 1/24/2024 | Lancet information for Authors, Authorship criteria, Authorship contributions, Example of Corporate Authorship | Corporate, group, collaborators, group | Megan Kern |
| SELF Symposium Working Session 4 (Priorities) | Compiled by Catherine Mohr | 10/26/2023 | This spreadsheet summarizes the findings from the 2023 SELF Symposium working session 4. | Priorities, symposium, self, excel, spreadsheet, voting, barriers, action, who is missing | Catherine Mohr |
| Facilitator Notes - Priorities | SELF | 1/17/2024 | This document summarizes the instructions given to the working group participants. Including the session agenda, facilitator guides, wall set-up, and slides posted during the discussions. | symposium, self, methods, facilitator, facilitation, discussion, handouts, instructions, rule, voting, votes, action, actions, guidelines | Megan Kern |
| Population | United Nations | 12/10/2023 | UN article on Population, the factors influencing the population growth, and the UN's role in population issues. | United Nations, UN, U.N., population, africa, china, fertility, longevity, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development | Meara, et al | 11/29/2023 | Lancet Article that insists on the development of broad-based health-systems solutions in LMICs. | global surgery, LMICs, health, healthcare, systems, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| Global surgery, obstetric, and anaesthesia indicator definitions and reporting: An Utstein consensus report | Davies, et al. | 11/02/2023 | Recommendations for the implementation of tracking global progress towards timely access to quality SAO care. | Utstein, consensus, naming, convention, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| Chatham House Rule | Chatham House | 12/04/2023 | When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. | Chatham, house, Chatham house, rule, participate, anonymous, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| OECD.Stat. | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | 12/08/2023 | OECD.Stat is a database where users can search and access large datasets including Healthcare Utilisation & Surgical procedures, build tables by selected variables, Extract and download large volumes of data, and view detailed metadata on methodology and sources. | Database, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| Blindness and vision impairment | World Health Organization | 12/10/2023 | Fact sheet on blindness and vision impairment in terms of causes, prevalence, and impact as well as the WHO's strategies and response. | WHO, blindness, blind, vision, eyes, sight, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| Integrated emergency, critical and operative care for universal health coverage and protection from health emergenciesStrengthening Emergency and Essential Surgical Care and Anaesthesia as a Component of Universal Health Coverage | The Sixty-Eight World Health Assembly | 11/29/2023 | Recommendation by the WHO Executive Board for the World Health Assembly adopt a resolution to Strengthen Emergency and Essential Surgical Care and Anaesthesia. | WHO, emergency, global surgery, LMICs, health, healthcare, systems, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| Ending Neglected Surgical Diseases (NSDs): Definitions, Strategies, and Goals for the Next Decade | Henry, et al. | 12/10/2023 | Global definitions are proposed as a starting point to prevent and eliminate NSD backlogs. Defining a subset of neglected surgical diseases and clarifying society's role and responsibility in their management provides a framework for their eventual eradication from an HRBA perspective. | Neglected, surgical, surgery, procedures, backlog, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| Country readiness and prerequisites for successful design and transition to implementation of essential packages of health services: experience from six countries | Alwan, et al. | 01/05/2024 | This article reviews the experiences of six small and low-income countries in implementing their health care budgets (EPHS), aiming to identify the requirements for good design and reform of package implementation. Promote the development of universal health coverage (UHC). | Political commitment, health sector, parliamentarians, policymakers, finance sectors, national ownership, institutionalisation, technical, managerial, capacity, human, resources, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| Decision-making processes for essential packages of health services: experience from six countries | Baltussen, et al. | 01/05/2024 | This article describes the development of an analytical framework based on the EPHS to improve decision-making and evaluate performance in six countries (Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and Zanzibar- Tanzania). | universal health coverage, essential packages of health services, reference, article, paper, bibliography, works cited | Mimi Wainwright |
| NOMESCO Classification of Surgical Procedures | Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee (NOMESCO) | 01/08/2024 | The NCSP consists of 15 main chapters of surgical procedures arranged according to functional-anatomic body system, four subsidiary chapters containing therapeutic and investigative procedures associated with surgery and one supplementary chapter. | NOMESCO, resource, examples, classification. | David Jeffcoach |
Working Group Members
A full list of members and their email addresses is available here.
| Responsible | Consulted |
|---|---|
| David Jeffcoach | Amelia Levi |
| Emmanuel Ameh | Nobhojit Roy |
| Nigel Rossiter |
Sharing Documents, Links, and Meeting Recordings
- Upload files to share with this working group.
- Alternatively, email files or links to Patrick-diamond@intuitive-foundation.org.
- All working group files are stored in this Dropbox folder.
- Access past Meeting Recordings.
Discussion Board
Just uploaded an edit – sorry I started working on this and know that it probably was downloaded before the most recent doc
To Dos:
• Prepare Suppl pdf file of all captured data
• Add criteria with definitions to the Glossary
• Do we need a Research in Context panel? Required of research articles
In agreement with keeping the procedures more general as to not make assumptions about how a country’s healthcare system organizes their healthcare workforce, the “packages of care” could be discussed as a something training institutions may want to create themselves and incorporate into their curriculums, but not explicitly prescribing them in this article. I believe this is in agreement with what Catherine was saying.
Also, “anti-skills” has always made sense to me. I think that is because it is very similar to a word from the field of Physics Education Research. I will try to find that word and see examples of how it has been defined.
If we are not binning my specialty, could we have a column for tagging each procedure with all the specialties that might perform this surgery? Or instead of tagging, a superscript icon that corresponds to a footnote with the specialty.
Priorities spreadsheet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y8G70WW0Rm_WSLvB5ZF7Vxvgz98370xq/edit#gid=37519815
Version 5b with more analysis on the WHO essential surgeries list. 15/44 missing from the priorities list. Interesting reasons why. This needs a bit of discussion on that, but after that, hopefully also at wordsmithing.