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| Title |
Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) Uganda: Update for Household Survey
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| Published in |
World Journal of Surgery, August 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00268-015-3191-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anthony T. Fuller, Elissa K. Butler, Tu M. Tran, Fredrick Makumbi, Samuel Luboga, Christine Muhumza, Jeffrey G. Chipman, Reinou S. Groen, Shailvi Gupta, Adam L. Kushner, Moses Galukande, Michael M. Haglund |
| Abstract |
The first step in improving surgical care delivery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is quantifying surgical need. The Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) is a validated household survey that has been previously implemented in three LMICs with great success. We implemented the SOSAS survey in Uganda, a medium-sized country with comparatively more language and ethnic group diversity. The investigators partnered with the Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) Uganda to access a data collection platform sampling 2520 households in 105 randomly selected enumeration areas. Due to geographic size consideration and language diversity, SOSAS's methodology was updated in three significant dimensions (1) technology, (2) staff management, and (3) questionnaire adaptations. The SOSAS survey was successfully implemented with non-medically trained but field proven research assistants. We sampled 2315 of 2402 eligible households (response rate 96.4 %) and 4248 of 4374 eligible individual respondents (response rate 97.1 %). The female-to-male ratio was 51.1-48.9 %. Total survey cost was USD 73,145 and data collection occurred in 14 days. SOSAS Uganda has demonstrated that non-medically trained, but university-educated, experienced researchers supervised by academic surgeons can successfully perform accurate data collection of SOSAS. SOSAS can be successfully implemented within larger and more diverse LMICs using existing national survey platforms, and SOSAS Uganda provides insights on how SOSAS can be executed specifically within other PMA2020 program countries. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 17% |
| Uganda | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 8 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 17% |
| Scientists | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 60 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 9 | 15% |
| Researcher | 8 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 10% |
| Other | 8 | 13% |
| Unknown | 17 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 43% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Psychology | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 19 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 November 2015.
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