Group 1: Preparedness for surgical and anaesthesia care | |
Access to timely essential surgery | Proportion of the population that can access, within 2 hours, a facility that can do caesarean delivery, laparotomy and treatment of open fracture (the Bellwether procedures) |
Specialist surgical workforce density | Number of specialist surgical, anaesthetic and obstetric physicians who are working per 100 000 population |
Group 2: Delivery of surgical and anaesthesia care | |
Surgical volume | Procedures done in an operating theatre, per 100 000 population per year |
Perioperative mortality rate | All-cause death rate before discharge in patients who have had a procedure in an operating theatre, divided by the total number of procedures, presented as a percentage |
Group 3: Impact of surgical and anaesthesia care | |
Protection against impoverishing expenditure | Proportion of households protected against impoverishment from direct out-of-pocket payments for surgical and anaesthesia care |
Protection against catastrophic expenditure | Proportion of households protected against catastrophic expenditure from direct out-of-pocket payments for surgical and anaesthesia care |
Adapted from the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.