[Download] ~ Pleuro-Pulmonary Disease in Central South Africa: A Thoracic Surgical Deficiency (Scientific Letters) (Letter to the Editor) by South African Medical Journal ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Pleuro-Pulmonary Disease in Central South Africa: A Thoracic Surgical Deficiency (Scientific Letters) (Letter to the Editor)
- Author : South African Medical Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 212 KB
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To the Editor: We wished to estimate the performance gap between thoracic surgical service provision and the burden of thoracic surgical disease in central South Africa (SA). We compared burden of disease data to the number of thoracic operations performed for inflammatory pleuro-pulmonary disease and primary lung cancer. The performance gap was estimated to be a factor of 1:20 for lung cancer and 1:10 for thoracic surgery as a whole. The extent of under-provision of thoracic surgical services in central SA demonstrates that urgent major health care system reforms are required at all levels to address the significant performance gap between service provision by thoracic surgery and the burden of disease in central SA. Background
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