Providing Care to Children from Low and Middle-Income Countries with Complex Surgical Problems: An 18 Year Review
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Hae Sung Kang, Emily Robertson, Hiba Vohra, William Richter, David A. Lanning, Jonathan DeAntonio
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Abstract
Purpose
The burden of surgical disease in children from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) is becoming more recognized as significant and undertreated. We recently reviewed our health system's experience with providing quaternary-level surgical care to children from LMICs through a partnership with World Pediatric Project (WPP), a not-for-profit organization.
Methods
A retrospective review was performed of all WPP-sponsored patients who received surgical care at our children's hospital from LMICs in the Caribbean and Central America from July 2000 to August 2018.
Results
Two hundred and fifty-five patients (average age: 5.9±5.3 years; range:
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