August Newsletter – Still Time to Register for GlobalSurg 3!

Still time to register for GlobalSurg 3!

GlobalSurg 3: Quality and outcomes after global cancer surgery: a prospective, international cohort study

GlobalSurg 3 is aiming to be the biggest ever international study examining cancer surgery outcomes

We already have 87 countries registered to collect data – can you help us reach our target of 100 countries taking part?

Data collection is open until 31st October 2018 – if your hospital is performing surgery for breast, gastric or colon cancer there is still time to form a team and enter patients from your hospital

Is your country or hospital registered yet? Check by clicking the GS3 in numbers tab at the GlobalSurg Data Centre

Click here to register your team for GlobalSurg 3 data collection

GlobalSurg 3 Update
Data.globalsurg.orgWe have had a tremendous month for GlobalSurg 3. In the last month alone we have had over 1000 more patient records completed in REDCap and 365 new collaborators have registered to join data collection.During August, 67 new hospitals were added to our register bringing the total now collecting data to 479.

United Kingdom 63 hospitals
Italy 39 hospitals
Egypt 27 hospitals
Spain 23 hospitals
India 19 hospitals
Australia 19 hospitals

In addition, 3 new countries have joined the study – welcome to our new collaborators in Madagascar, Namibia and Algeria

GlobalSurg 3 in Numbers – August update

*Numbers in brackets indicate increase since July
2187 (+ 367) collaborators now registered to take part in 900 (+ 143) mini- teams

479 (+ 67) Hospitals in 87 (+ 3) countries currently collecting data

3591 (+ 1206) patient records entered into REDCap, 2249 (+ 1138) patients’ data already completed

Thank you and well done to this month’s top recruiting hospitals (in no particular order):

Central University Hospital Of Asturias (Spain)
Addenbrooke’s Hospital (UK)
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (UK)
Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital (Spain)
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics (Lithuania)

Remember to visit data.globalsurg.org to see live updates on registrations and data entry in your country

GlobalSurg Photo of the Month
Welcome to all our GlobalSurg 3 collaborators in Egypt!

Would you like your team to appear here? Email your team photos to [email protected]

Save the Date!

GlobalSurg 3 Validation Study

We will shortly be announcing details of the GlobalSurg 3 validation study. This is an important aspect of the project as it helps ensure a robust, high quality dataset – essential to publishing the study in a high impact journal.

The validation study will involve checking case ascertainment and examining a small number of data points at each hospital. The results of the validation will not be used to change the primary dataset, only to observe how accurate the primary data is.

Each participating hosptial will require a single additional collaborator to act as the data validator.

To be a data validator a collaborator:

must work at a hospital contributing primary data to the study
must have access to hospital records
must not have taken part in the study already as a data collector

Instructions on how to register as a Data Validator will be announced soon via this newsletter

GlobalSurg and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

New data protection rules come into force in Europe at the end of May 2018.
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