Table 1

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteriaExclusion criteria
Population

  • General population

  • Major surgery patients

  • Operative and non-operative surgery patients

  • Healthcare providers

  • Health policy makers

  • Agencies or organisations involved in surgery financing

  • Non-surgery patients

  • Medical gynaecological patients

  • Medical obstetric patients

  • Patients with minor procedures such as male circumcision, post-abortion care (eg, manual vacuum aspiration)

Concept

  • Financing of surgical care including user fees, tax funding, health insurance, donor funds

  • Universal health coverage

  • Equity in surgery care access

  • Impoverishing and catastrophic expenditures

  • Economics of surgery

  • Costing studies (without financing data)

  • Cost-effectiveness studies (without financing data)

  • Studies focusing on the epidemiological or clinical aspects of surgeries

Context

  • Primary, secondary and tertiary hospital care

  • SSA

  • Global surgery studies broadly (including SSA)

  • Non-hospital primary health facilities (dispensaries, health posts, health centres)

  • Studies focusing on high-income countries only

  • Studies focusing on LMICs outside SSA

  • LMICs, low-income and middle-income countries; SSA, sub-Saharan Africa.