Surgical referral systems in low- and middle-income countries: A review of the evidence

Chiara Pittalis; Ruairi Brugha; Jakub Gajewski

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0223328

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Surgical referral systems in low- and middle-income countries: A review of the evidence

Chiara Pittalis ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: chiarapittalis@rcsi.ie

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3465-9850

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Ruairi Brugha,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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Jakub Gajewski

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Global Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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Surgical referral systems in low- and middle-income countries: A review of the evidence

Chiara Pittalis,
Ruairi Brugha,
Jakub Gajewski

Published: September 27, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223328

About the Authors

Chiara Pittalis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: chiarapittalis@rcsi.ie

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3465-9850

Ruairi Brugha

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Jakub Gajewski

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Global Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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