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Barriers to the Delivery of Orthopedic Care

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There are enormous differences in the availability of orthopedic services between and within countries, and only a small subset of patients in LMICs will ever have access to trained orthopedic surgeons. Barriers to health care are social, cultural, financial, and structural.

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  1. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    David A. Spiegel MD (Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery)

  2. Honorary Consultant in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children, Janagal, Kavre, Nepal

    David A. Spiegel MD (Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery)

  3. Pediatric Surgery, Rady Childrens Hospital, University of California San Diego, 3030 Children’s Way Suite 107, San Diego, CA, 92123, USA

    Stephen W. Bickler MD, DTM&H, FACS

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Richard A. Gosselin

  2. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    David A. Spiegel

  3. Columbus, Montana, USA

    Michelle Foltz

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Spiegel, D.A., Bickler, S.W. (2014). Barriers to the Delivery of Orthopedic Care. In: Gosselin, R., Spiegel, D., Foltz, M. (eds) Global Orthopedics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1578-7_5

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