What is it about?
People in sub-Saharan Africa can suffer horrendous complications as a result of accidents childbirth or illness. Well meaning clinicians will offer surgery or other treatments, often abandoned in the developed world without subjecting them to the close scrutiny of a proper clinical trial with well collected data.
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Why is it important?
As in high income countries any treatments offered, particularly surgical treatments should either be tried and tested or only offered as part of properly conducted clinical trial.
Perspectives
As a clinician who has worked in sub-Saharan Africa for some years I have been troubled by visiting doctors arriving to attempt untried and potentially irreversible surgery without proper evaluation and assessment of quality of life.
Professor Jeremy Torquil Wright
University of Surrey
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This page is a summary of: Ethical and well-constructed research into the surgical management of obstetric fistula: a distant hope or a real possibility?, BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, August 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.13430.
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