October Newsletter

The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration

GlobalSurg 3 Update

GlobalSurg 3 is in the final month of data collection and patient numbers are increasing rapidly – now over 7000!.

Thanks to the hard work of our collaborators all around the world, the study is on target to be the biggest ever international study into surgical outcomes for cancer patients.

74 countries have now begun data entry – the white gaps in our data entry map are getting smaller!
Can you help fill in the map? If you have been collecting data on paper forms please start entering it into REDCap as soon as possible

Data Collection & Data Entry Deadlines

All 4-week data collection periods must conclude by 31st October 2018 – this is the final date to collect new patients for the study

30-Day follow-up data for patients collected during October will be collected during November, but no new patients should be entered after 31st October

Registration for new teams closes 31st October 2018 – if you have been collecting data on paper forms and have not yet registered your team for a REDCap account for online data entry, please register as soon as possible
https://is.gd/gs3_registration

All data must be entered and complete on REDCap by
10pm Monday 17th December 2018

Completing your Data Entry on REDCap

1. Five green dots
Remember, to be included in the authorship list of any publications arising from the study, your data must be >90% complete. Please make sure you have 5 green dots for every patient

2. Data Collection Completion form
Once you have 5 green dots for every patient please complete the ‘Data Collection Completion’ form available in the ‘Authorship‘ project of your REDCap account

Full instructions on completing this form can be found here

Call for Validators

GlobalSurg 3 Validation Study

Data validation for GlobalSurg 3 will take place between October 2018 and February 2019. The purpose of the validation study is to demonstrate that the dataset is of high quality to facilitate publication in a high impact medical 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 hospital will require a single additional collaborator to act as the data validator. All validators will be cited as authors on publications arising from the study.

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

Read the full GlobalSurg 3 validation user guide here
Read our validation FAQs here

Validator Registration

Each participating hospital requires 1 validator

Check if your hospital already has a validator registered by clicking here.

If your hospital requires a validator, please contact your National Lead by clicking here – select your country from the dropdown menu and complete the form giving details of which centre you wish to validate.

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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