∗Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
†Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
‡Department of Surgery, Makerere University, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
§KidsOR, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
||Department of Health Management and Policy, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT.
Reprints: Ava Yap, MD, Department of Surgery at University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143 E-mail: [email protected].
Reprints will not be available from the authors.
This project was funded by Yale School of Medicine, which supported on the ground personnel and equipment. The funders were not involved in the design, collection, analysis, or interpretation of this study. The corresponding author held full rights and responsibility in the decision to publish. Operative room equipment and cost data was donated by the KidsOR charity (formerly known as the ARCHIE Foundation).
A.Y., R.Y., D.O., and M.C. were involved in study conception and design. A.Y., M.C., A.M., N.K., P.K., and D.C. collected the cost information, outcomes data. G.Y., R.Y., and D.O. guided the economic evaluation. A.Y. carried out the main analysis and interpretation of the data. M.C., D.O., and R.Y. oversaw the analysis. A.Y. drafted the initial manuscript. M.C., D.O., and R.Y. provided critical revisions and all authors reviewed and approved of the final manuscript.
This study was a combined effort between multiple institutions and countries, namely KidsOR, Yale University, Makerere University, and University of Aberdeen. The international collaboration was essential to create an infrastructure where international research could be conducted. The authors believe that all the aforementioned authors contributed substantially to this project, and without each of their input the work would not have been possible.
The authors disclose no conflicts of interest.
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