Background The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors study used
the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk …

Importance The literature focuses on mortality among children younger than 5 years.
Comparable information on nonfatal health outcomes among these children and the fatal …

Importance Comprehensive and timely monitoring of disease burden in all age groups,
including children and adolescents, is essential for improving population health. Objective …

In this Policy Forum, the Bellagio Essential Surgery Group, which was formed to advocate for
increased access to surgery in Africa, recommends four priority areas for national and …

BACKGROUND: Interest in global health during postgraduate training is increasing across
disciplines. There are limited data from surgery residency programs on their attitudes and …

Trauma is a major problem in the United States. Mortality from trauma is the number one
cause of death under the age of 45 in the United States and is the third leading cause of …

Background Globally, injury deaths largely occur in low‐and middle‐income countries. No
estimates of injury‐associated mortality exist in Rwanda. This study aimed to describe the …

Background: Our institution had a major outbreak of multi-drug-resistant Acinetobacter
(MDRA) in its general surgical and trauma intensive care units (ICUs) in 2011, requiring …

Background: Interventions to contain two multi-drug-resistant Acinetobacter (MDRA)
outbreaks reduced the incidence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) organisms, specifically …

Background: Our institution had an outbreak of multi-drug-resistant Acinetobacter (MDRA) in
2011. We analyzed the costs of responding to this outbreak from the hospital's perspective …