English to Persian (Farsi) Medical Medical (general) medicine, medical

a near total lack of pertinent data, we decided
that the next best approach was to try to obtain consensus on a
“best educated guess” for the surgical burden of each condition.
We developed a survey instrument that listed all the
possible surgical conditions (all potential surgical DALYs
representing the maximum imaginable DALYs that could conceivably
be surgical).We sent the questionnaire to 32 surgeons
in various parts of the world, asking them what was, in their
opinion, the proportion of each condition that would require
surgery, which we have referred to as estimated surgical DALYs
or the conservative minimum.