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Table 3 Professionalization

From: A systematic review of social, economic and diplomatic aspects of short-term medical missions

Author

Journal

Year

Contribution

Maki et al. [2]

BMC Health Services Research

2008

Designed instruments to evaluate mission quality

Butler [19]

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

2009

Published Online Search that failed to find collaborative volunteer pediatric surgery network

Kingham [71]

Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons

2011

Noted absence of mission and volunteer credentialing body

Welling et al. [21]

World Journal of Surgery

2012

Argues that effectiveness of missions suffers from lack of collaboration

Fisher and Fisher [20]

Anesthesia and Analgesia

2014

Reviews pitfalls of non-integration of effort and discusses solutions