Scholars@Duke
Mohamed Elamien

Mohamed Elamien

House Staff
Surgery

Selected Publications

Quality of life measures and cost analysis of biologic versus synthetic mesh for ventral hernia repair: The Preventing Recurrence in Clean and Contaminated Hernias randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article Surgery · April 2024 BackgroundAlthough the most durable method for ventral hernia repairs involves using mesh, whether to use biologic mesh versus synthetic mesh remains controversial. This study aimed to compare synthetic and biologic meshes with respect to patient- ... Full text Cite

Rethinking how development assistance for health can catalyse progress on primary health care.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · December 2023 Global campaigns to control HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and vaccine-preventable illnesses showed that large-scale impact can be achieved by using additional international financing to support selected, evidence-based, high-impact investment areas and to ca ... Full text Cite

Investing in a global pooled-funding mechanism for late-stage clinical trials of poverty-related and neglected diseases: an economic evaluation.

Journal Article BMJ global health · May 2023 IntroductionPoverty-related and neglected diseases (PRNDs) cause over three million deaths annually. Despite this burden, there is a large gap between actual funding for PRND research and development (R&D) and the funding needed to launch PRND pro ... Full text Cite

A cost-effectiveness analysis of surgical care delivery in Eastern Uganda-a societal perspective.

Journal Article BMC health services research · March 2023 BackgroundThe mismatch between the global burden of surgical disease and global health funding for surgical illness exacerbates disparities in surgical care access worldwide. Amidst competing priorities, governments need to rationally allocate sca ... Full text Cite

Estimated Global Proportions of Individuals With Persistent Fatigue, Cognitive, and Respiratory Symptom Clusters Following Symptomatic COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021.

Journal Article JAMA · October 25, 2022 IMPORTANCE: Some individuals experience persistent symptoms after initial symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection (often referred to as Long COVID). OBJECTIVE: To estimate the proportion of males and females with COVID-19, younger or older than 20 years of age, w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Investing in late-stage clinical trials and manufacturing of product candidates for five major infectious diseases: a modelling study of the benefits and costs of investment in three middle-income countries.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · July 2022 BackgroundInvesting in late-stage clinical trials, trial sites, and production capacity for new health products could improve access to vaccines, therapeutics, and infectious disease diagnostics in middle-income countries. This study assesses the ... Full text Cite

Coverage of social assistance in Ethiopia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a time-to-event analysis.

Journal Article BMJ global health · July 2022 ObjectiveIn a pandemic, government assistance is essential to support the most vulnerable households as they face health and economic challenges. However, government assistance is effective only when it reaches vulnerable households in time. In th ... Full text Cite

A global systematic analysis of the occurrence, severity, and recovery pattern of long COVID in 2020 and 2021.

Journal Article medRxiv · May 27, 2022 IMPORTANCE: While much of the attention on the COVID-19 pandemic was directed at the daily counts of cases and those with serious disease overwhelming health services, increasingly, reports have appeared of people who experience debilitating symptoms after ... Full text Link to item Cite

Development and validation of DeciBHAL-US: A novel microsimulation model of hearing loss across the lifespan in the United States.

Journal Article EClinicalMedicine · February 2022 BACKGROUND: Hearing loss affects over 50% of people in the US across their lifespan and there is a lack of decision modeling frameworks to inform optimal hearing healthcare delivery. Our objective was to develop and validate a microsimulation model of hear ... Full text Link to item Cite

Achieving global mortality reduction targets and universal health coverage: The impact of COVID-19.

Journal Article PLoS medicine · June 2021 Wenhui Mao and coauthors discuss possible implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health aspirations in low- and middle-income countries. ... Full text Cite

Evidence gaps in economic analyses of hearing healthcare: A systematic review.

Journal Article EClinicalMedicine · May 2021 BACKGROUND: Hearing loss is a common and costly medical condition. This systematic review sought to identify evidence gaps in published model-based economic analyses addressing hearing loss to inform model development for an ongoing Lancet Commission. METH ... Full text Link to item Cite

Demographic Factors Associated with Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Pain Management.

Journal Article Pain Physician · January 2020 BACKGROUND: Pain control is strongly correlated with the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) quality-of-care domains and overall hospital experience. Prior research implicates several factors in the variability of pati ... Link to item Cite

Drones and digital adherence monitoring for community-based tuberculosis control in remote Madagascar: A cost-effectiveness analysis.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2020 BackgroundContinuing tuberculosis control with current approaches is unlikely to reach the World Health Organization's objective to eliminate TB by 2035. Innovative interventions such as unmanned aerial vehicles (or drones) and digital adherence m ... Full text Cite

Developing the Global Health Cost Consortium Unit Cost Study Repository for HIV and TB: methodology and lessons learned.

Journal Article African journal of AIDS research : AJAR · December 2019 Consistently defined, accurate, and easily accessible cost data are a valuable resource to inform efficiency analyses, budget preparation, and sustainability planning in global health. The Global Health Cost Consortium (GHCC) designed the Unit Cost Study R ... Full text Cite

The state of costing research for HIV interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.

Journal Article African journal of AIDS research : AJAR · December 2019 The past decade has seen a growing emphasis on the production of high-quality costing data to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of global health interventions. The need for such data is especially important for decision making and priority sett ... Full text Cite

Association between cardiovascular risk factors and the diameter of the main pulmonary artery in asymptomatic population in the Appalachian region.

Journal Article Journal of thoracic disease · August 2019 BackgroundPulmonary artery (PA) diameter may be altered in association with cardiovascular (CV) risk factors as noted in aorta in systemic hypertension. The flow of blood from the right ventricle to the PA and all the way to the capillary level de ... Full text Cite

The Cost of Intramedullary Nailing Versus Skeletal Traction for Treatment of Femoral Shaft Fractures in Malawi: A Prospective Economic Analysis.

Journal Article World J Surg · January 2019 BACKGROUND: In many low- and middle-income countries, non-surgical management of femoral shaft fractures using skeletal traction is common because intramedullary (IM) nailing is perceived to be expensive. This study assessed the cost of IM nailing and skel ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evaluating meniscus allograft transplant using a cost-effectiveness threshold analysis.

Journal Article The Knee · December 2018 BackgroundIt is unknown if meniscal allograft transplant (MAT) delays progression of osteoarthritis (OA). Cost-effectiveness threshold analysis can demonstrate the necessary delay in OA progression required by MAT to be considered cost-effective c ... Full text Cite

Developing Research to Change Policy: Design of a Multicenter Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Comparing Intramedullary Nailing to Skeletal Traction in Malawi

Journal Article Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma · October 2018 Introduction:The purpose of our study is to prospectively evaluate the cost effectiveness of intramedullary nailing compared with skeletal traction in a resource-limited setting where tra ... Full text Cite

The impact of antegrade intramedullary nailing start site using the SIGN nail in proximal femoral fractures: A prospective cohort study.

Journal Article Injury · February 2018 IntroductionIn many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) SIGN nail is commonly used for antegrade femoral intramedullary (IM) nailing, using a start site either at the tip of the greater trochanter or piriformis fossa. While a correct start sit ... Full text Cite