Table 1.
Core indicators for monitoring of universal access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care when needed (Source: Meara et al.8).
| Indicator | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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, per 100 000 population |
| Surgical volume | Procedures done in an operating theatre, per 100 000 population per year |
| Perioperative mortality | In-hospital mortality of patients who have undergone a procedure in an operating theatre |
| 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 |