Kashim Shah
Biographic Data
| ID | 9065303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kashim Shah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kashim |
| FAMILY NAME | Shah |
| SIGNATURE | SHAH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nick Simons Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The effect of deploying non-physician anaesthesia providers on surgical access and capacity across Nepal’s primary and secondary government hospitals
BACKGROUND: The lack of skilled healthcare workers limits access to surgical care, with the greatest disparities in low- and middle-income countries. In Nepal, the 1-year anaesthesia assistant (AA) programme trains non-physician cadres in anaesthesia delivery to address this gap. We evaluated the deployment of AAs in primary and secondary government hospitals in Nepal during 2008/2009 to 2023/2024 on hospitals' ability to perform any major surger…
Pathways to effective surgical coverage in a lower-middle-income country
The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) recommends using specialist surgical workforce density as one of 6 core indicators for monitoring universal access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care. Using Nepal as a case study, we explored the capacity of a generalist workforce (led by a family physician or MD general practitioner and non-physician anaesthetist) to enable effective surgical delivery through task-shifting. Using a m…
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Pathways to effective surgical coverage in a lower-middle-income country
The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) recommends using specialist surgical workforce density as one of 6 core indicators for monitoring universal access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care. Using Nepal as a case study, we explored the capacity of a generalist workforce (led by a family physician or MD general practitioner and non-physician anaesthetist) to enable effective surgical delivery through task-shifting. Using a m…
The effect of deploying non-physician anaesthesia providers on surgical access and capacity across Nepal’s primary and secondary government hospitals
BACKGROUND: The lack of skilled healthcare workers limits access to surgical care, with the greatest disparities in low- and middle-income countries. In Nepal, the 1-year anaesthesia assistant (AA) programme trains non-physician cadres in anaesthesia delivery to address this gap. We evaluated the deployment of AAs in primary and secondary government hospitals in Nepal during 2008/2009 to 2023/2024 on hospitals' ability to perform any major surger…
Global Health and Surgery (2 works) · Caesarean delivery (1 work) · Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (1 work) · Family medicine (1 work) · Global Health Workforce Issues (1 work) · Health care (1 work) · Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization (1 work) · Medicine (1 work) · Nursing (1 work) · Odds (1 work)