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Untreated surgical conditions in Sierra Leone: a cluster randomised, cross-sectional, countrywide survey

Randomized Controlled Trial

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• ¹ Surgeons OverSeas, New York, NY 10003, USA. rsgroen@hotmail.com

• PMID: 22898076
• DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61081-2

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Randomized Controlled Trial

Reinou S Groen et al. Lancet. 2012.

• ¹ Surgeons OverSeas, New York, NY 10003, USA. rsgroen@hotmail.com

• PMID: 22898076
• DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61081-2

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Background: Surgical care is increasingly recognised as an important part of global health yet data for the burden of surgical disease are scarce. The Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) was developed to measure the prevalence of surgical conditions and surgically treatable deaths in low-income and middle-income countries. We administered this survey countrywide in Sierra Leone, which ranks 180 of the 187 nations on the UN Development Index.

Methods: The study was done between Jan 9 and Feb 3, 2012. 75 of 9671 enumeration areas, the smallest administrative units in Sierra Leone, were randomly selected for the study clusters, with a probability proportional to the population size. In each cluster 25 households were randomly selected to take part in the survey. Data were collected via handheld tablets by trained local medical and nursing students. A household representative was interviewed to establish the number of household members (defined as those who ate from the same pot and slept in the same structure the night before the interview), identify deaths in the household during the previous year, and establish whether any of the deceased household members had a condition needing surgery in the week before death. Two randomly selected household members underwent a head-to-toe verbal examination and need for surgical care was recorded on the basis of the response to whether they had a condition that they believed needed surgical assessment or care.

Findings: Of the 1875 targeted households, data were analysed for 1843 (98%). 896 of 3645 (25%; 95% CI 22·9-26·2) respondents reported a surgical condition needing attention and 179 of 709 (25%; 95% CI 22·5-27·9) deaths of household members in the previous year might have been averted by timely surgical care.

Interpretation: Our results show a large unmet need for surgical consultations in Sierra Leone and provide a baseline against which future surgical programmes can be measured. Additional surveys in other low-income and middle-income countries are needed to document and confirm what seems to be a neglected component of global health.

Funding: Surgeons OverSeas, Thompson Family Foundation.

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