April Newsletter

The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration

GlobalSurg Spring News Round Up

GlobalSurg 2 Update

The latest GlobalSurg study, ‘Determining the worldwide epidemiology of surgical site infections after gastrointestinal surgery’ finished data collection at the of last year.

By the end of the data collection period over 16,000 patient records had been entered into the study – an amazing collaborative effort by all members of GlobalSurg!

For the first time, we also conducted a data validation study after the main data collection period to ensure the dataset is accurate and robust.

Our data analysis team are now hard at work analysing all this data and producing a manuscript draft which will shortly be submitted to a major journal for peer review.

We’ll keep everyone updated via this newsletter and Twitter

Remember you can view all GlobalSurg publications via our the publications page and our new google scholar page

Dr Brendan Berry is awarded the GlobalSurg Research Prize!

Congratulations to Dr Brendan Berry who was awarded the GlobalSurg Research Prize at the 2017 Association of Surgeons in Training (AsiT) annual meeting held in April in Bournemouth, UK.

You can read the full story of Dr Berry’s research into using 3D printing technology to help patient requiring complex craniofacial surgery in Bangalore on our website blog

Remember to watch out for the next GlobalSurg newsletter – we will have some big news to share!

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Read all the latest GlobalSurg news

Remember to keep an eye on our blog and twitter feed where you can read all the latest GlobalSurg news including stories from our collaborators around the world, all the peer reviews for GlobalSurg 1, and Atul Gwande tweeting about our study!

If you would like to share your GlobalSurg story send us a brief post to [email protected] and we will publish it on our blog!

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