GlobalSurg 2 Authorship List The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration The GlobalSurg 2 manuscript is under submission at a top journal for peer review Did you participate in GlobalSurg 2? Is your name correct on the authorship list? Please click to access the full draft authorship list Please check carefully: Your name is spelled correctly and as you wish it appear on [...]
Research Priority Setting Identifying research priorities for future GlobalSurg studies You are invited you to participate in GlobalSurg Research Priority Setting survey! The aim of the Research Priority Setting survey is to identify which research questions should be short-listed for consideration when planning future GlobalSurg studies. You are invited to please take a few moments to complete our short [...]
July Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg Joins Major New Strategic Partnership to Build Global Surgical Research Unit In association with The Universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh & Warwick, GlobalSurg are delighted to announce the launch of a major new Global Surgical Research Unit. The consortium partners have been awarded substantial grant funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), UK. Over the next four [...]
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 [...]
Congratulations to Dr Brendan Berry winner of the GlobalSurg Research Prize at the 2017 Association of Surgeons in Training (AsiT) annual meeting held in April in Bournemouth, UK. In this guest blog Dr Berry describes his awarding project and the experience of conducting his research in South Indian. Can Three Dimensional (3D) Printing Technology [...]
GlobalSurg New Year News Round Up Visit the new GlobalSurg YouTube Channel In 2016 the GlobalSurg team visited Rwanda to deliver a 2 day audit and research skills course at the University of Rwanda. The team were accompanied by humanarian film maker, Lauren Anders-Brown from Collaborate: Ideas & Images. During the trip Lauren made a film about [...]
Lauren Anders Brown guest blogs her experience filming in Rwanda with Globalsurg In 2016 the GlobalSurg team visited Rwanda to deliver a 2 day audit and research skills course at the University of Rwanda. The team were lucky enough to be joined by humanitarian film maker, Lauren Anders Brown, from the independent film company, Collaborate: [...]
December Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration 2016 has been an incredible year for GlobalSurg Thank you & congratulations to all our collaborators for the many successes! 2016 GlobalSurg Highlights 2016 began with the GlobalSurg team getting out and about! In January members of the steering committee visited Rwanda to teach a 2-day Audit and Research [...]
GlobalSurg 1 Paediatric Paper Published in BMJ Global Health The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg are delighted to announce the publication of the next GlobalSurg 1 paper 'Determinants of morbidity and mortality following emergency abdominal surgery in children in low-income and middle-income countries' Published today in BMJ GlobalHealth Congratulations to all our collaborators! Click here [...]
The First GlobalSurg Randomised Controlled Trial Since 2013 GlobalSurg has run two observational studies in abdominal surgery, involving 25,000 patients from over a hundred countries. This has provided vital baseline data to allow us to begin to planning the first GlobalSurg randomised controlled trial (RCT) targeting reduction of surgical site infection (SSI) following abdominal surgery. At [...]
