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Record W6977084833 · doi:10.60692/ff79v-a8x08

Guidelines for short-term medical missions: perspectives from host countries

2022· article· en· W6977084833 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

VenueGreater South Information System · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGlobal Health and Surgery
Canadian institutionsWestern UniversityTrent University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGuidelineChecklistThematic analysisHost (biology)Health careProcess (computing)Perspective (graphical)

Abstract

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In the past decade, there has been increasing guideline development for short-term medical missions (STMMs) traveling from high-income to low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of supporting health care services. The ethics of STMMs is criticized in the literature and there is frequently a lack of host country collaboration. This typically results in guidelines which are developed through the lens of the sending (high-income) countries' staff and organizations. The aim of this paper is to evaluate an existing best practice guideline document from the perspective of host country participants with knowledge of STMMs from Honduras, Malawi, and the Philippines.The guideline used for the evaluation consisted of nine best practice elements that were discerned based on literature and the experience of those working within the field. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in a cross-sectional study with participants (n = 118) from the host countries. Thematic analysis was conducted by two researchers and the results were assessed by working group members to confirm interpretations of the data.Overall, participants expressed a strong interest in having more structured guidance surrounding STMM practices. There was a positive response to and general acceptance of the proposed STMM guidelines, although participants found the 24-page document onerous to use; a companion checklist was developed. The key themes that emerged from the interviews included collaboration and coordination, care for hard-to-reach communities, capacity building, critical products and essential medical supplies, and opportunity and feasibility.Host input suggests that the guidelines provide structured regulation and coordination of the medical mission process and have the potential to improve the way STMMs are carried out. The guidelines have also proven to be a useful tool for the actual implementation of STMMs and can be a tool to strengthen links and trust between mission teams and local health staff. However, local contexts vary considerably, and guidelines must be adapted for local use. It is recommended that STMM teams work in conjunction with host partners to ensure they meet local needs, increase capacity development of local health workers, and provide continuity of care for patients into the local system.En la última década, ha habido un incremento en el desarrollo de guías para las misiones médicas de corto plazo (STMM) que viajan desde países de ingresos altos a países en vías de desarrollo con el fin de apoyar los servicios de atención médica. La ética de las (STMM) es criticada en la literatura y hay una falta frecuente de colaboración entre los países anfitriones. Esto normalmente da como resultado directrices que se desarrollan a través de la lente del personal y las organizaciones de los países que envían (países de altos ingresos). El objetivo de este documento es evaluar un documento guía de mejores prácticas existente desde la perspectiva de los participantes del país anfitrión con conocimiento de las misiones médicas de corto plazo (STMM) de Honduras, Malawi y Filipinas. MéTODOS: la directriz utilizada para la evaluación consistió en nueve elementos de mejores prácticas que se discernieron en base a la literatura y la experiencia de quienes trabajan en el campo. Se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas en un estudio transversal con participantes (n = 118) de los países anfitriones. El análisis temático fue realizado por dos investigadores y los resultados fueron evaluados por miembros del grupo de trabajo para confirmar las interpretaciones de los datos.En general, los participantes expresaron un gran interés en tener una guía más estructurada en torno a las prácticas de las misiones médicas de corto plazo (STMM). Hubo una respuesta positiva y una aceptación general de las pautas de las misiones médicas de corto plazo (STMM) propuestos, aunque los participantes encontraron oneroso el uso del documento de 24 páginas y se desarrolló una lista de verificación complementaria. Los temas clave que surgieron de las entrevistas incluyeron colaboración y coordinación, atención a comunidades de difícil acceso, desarrollo de capacidades, productos críticos y suministros médicos esenciales, y oportunidad y viabilidad.Los comentarios del anfitrión sugieren que las directrices proporcionan una regulación y coordinación estructuradas del proceso de la misión médica y tienen el potencial de mejorar la forma en que se llevan a cabo las misiones médicas de corto plazo (STMM). Las pautas también han demostrado ser una herramienta útil para la implementación real de de las misiones médicas de corto plazo (STMM) y pueden servir para fortalecer los vínculos y la confianza entre los equipos de misión y los sistemas de salud locales. Sin embargo, los contextos locales varían considerablemente y las pautas deben adaptarse para el uso local. Se recomienda que los equipos de las misiones médicas de corto plazo (STMM) trabajen en conjunto con los socios anfitriones para garantizar que satisfagan las necesidades locales, aumenten el desarrollo de la capacidad de los trabajadores de salud locales y brinden continuidad de atención a los pacientes en el sistema local.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.489
Threshold uncertainty score0.520

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.078
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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