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Views From Beyond the OR explores current issues in global public health, with a particular focus on global surgical care and public health during humanitarian emergencies.
Jason Nickerson
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- August 17, 2012
- 10:28 AM
- 234 views
Some Thoughts on Using Randomized Controlled Trials in International Development
by Jason in Views From Beyond the OR
TweetI recently came across a post on the Council for Foreign Relations’ Development Channel that asked: Are Randomized Controlled Trials a Good Way to Evaluate Development Projects? This is an incredibly important question because, as the authors note, “International donors … Continue reading →... Read more »
Gordon C S Smith, & Jill P Pell. (2003) Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials. BMJ, 1459. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1459
- May 23, 2012
- 02:27 PM
- 194 views
Surgery in Humanitarian Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Recent Disasters
by Jason in Views From Beyond the OR
TweetIn the days and weeks following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, thousands of surgical procedures were performed to alleviate suffering, save lives, and hopefully allow patients to obtain rehabilitation and support in order to return to their lives. Surgery … Continue reading →... Read more »
Nickerson JW, Chackungal S, Knowlton L, McQueen K, & Burkle FM. (2012) Surgical Care during Humanitarian Crises: A Systematic Review of Published Surgical Caseload Data from Foreign Medical Teams. Prehospital and disaster medicine, 1-6. PMID: 22591739
Knowlton LM, Gosney JE, Chackungal S, Altschuler E, Black L, Burkle FM, Casey K, Crandell D, Demey D, Di Giacomo L.... (2011) Consensus statements regarding the multidisciplinary care of limb amputation patients in disasters or humanitarian emergencies: report of the 2011 humanitarian action summit surgical working group on amputations following disasters or conflict. Prehospital and disaster medicine, 26(6), 438-48. PMID: 22559308
Chackungal S, Nickerson JW, Knowlton LM, Black L, Burkle FM, Casey K, Crandell D, Demey D, Di Giacomo L, Dohlman L.... (2011) Best Practice Guidelines on Surgical Response in Disasters and Humanitarian Emergencies: Report of the 2011 Humanitarian Action Summit Working Group on Surgical Issues within the Humanitarian Space. Prehospital and disaster medicine, 26(6), 429-37. PMID: 22475370
Redmond AD, Mardel S, Taithe B, Calvot T, Gosney J, Duttine A, & Girois S. (2011) A qualitative and quantitative study of the surgical and rehabilitation response to the earthquake in haiti, january 2010. Prehospital and disaster medicine, 26(6), 449-56. PMID: 22469020
- February 29, 2012
- 02:38 PM
- 314 views
Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines – Lessons from the Pneumococcal Vaccine
by Jason in Views From Beyond the OR
In global public health, we talk about a class of diseases that cause significant morbidity and mortality, but for which treatments are either unavailable, ineffective, or toxic, known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). One of the main problems with NTDs … Continue reading →... Read more »
Gabriel P, Goulding R, Morgan-Jonker C, Turvey S, & Nickerson J. (2010) Fostering Canadian drug research and development for neglected tropical diseases. Open medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal, 4(2). PMID: 21709722
Scudellari, M. (2011) Are advance market commitments for drugs a real advance?. Nature Medicine, 17(2), 139-139. DOI: 10.1038/nm0211-139
- January 30, 2012
- 11:35 AM
- 261 views
Childhood Pneumonia – What’s the Problem?
by Jason in Views From Beyond the OR
An article caught my eye in last week’s Lancet. Soofi and colleagues conducted a cluster-randomised controlled trial of community case management of severe pneumonia in children aged 2-59 months in a rural district of Pakistan to try and understand how … Continue reading →... Read more »
Soofi, S., Ahmed, S., Fox, M., MacLeod, W., Thea, D., Qazi, S., & Bhutta, Z. (2012) Effectiveness of community case management of severe pneumonia with oral amoxicillin in children aged 2–59 months in Matiari district, rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61714-5
- January 10, 2012
- 10:00 AM
- 168 views
The War on Drugs: Implications for the Treatment of Pain
by Jason Nickerson in Views From Beyond the OR
This post describes a recently published paper in PLoS Medicine that discusses access to essential pain medicines in developing countries. ... Read more »
Nickerson, J.W., & Attaran, A. (2012) The Inadequate Treatment of Pain: Collateral Damage from the War on Drugs. PLoS Medicine, 9(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001153
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