- PaedSurg Africa is a collaboration of surgeons and allied health professionals throughout sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) collectively producing the largest prospective cohort study of paediatric surgery in this region of the world. - The study results will be used to help advocate for enhanced children's surgical services in SSA where they are desperately needed. [...]
Reminder: Data Update Required for GlobalSurg 2 Patient Records Thank you to everyone who has updated their records in REDCap to include gender on the patient demographics form. Could we please remind all collaborators, especially those who entered data at the beginning of the study, to log back into their REDCap accounts and add the [...]
Dr Ed Fitzgerald of the GlobalSurg steering committee was recently invited to guest blog about the GlobalSurg Collaboration on the Royal College of Surgeons website. Ed describes our innovative approach to crowd sourcing surgical outcomes data using social media to build and maintain an international community of researchers. Click here to read the full post [...]
August Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Final data collection dates for GlobalSurg 2 The last date for standard patient enrolement into GlobalSurg 2 is July 31st 2016 Standard 30 day follow-up data collection should be completed by August 30th 2016 Data entry deadline Please ensure all data is entered into REDCap by 23:59 (GMT) September 11th [...]
Call for Validators for GlobalSurg 2 The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Recruiting validators for GlobalSurg 2 Validation is an important part of the study ensuring that data collected is of high quality. We are now looking for a team of validators for GlobalSurg 2. To act as a validators you should: be a qualified doctor or nurse [...]
Urgent Data Update Required for GlobalSurg 2 The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Urgent Data Update Required for GlobalSurg 2 Patient Records Dear GlobalSurg 2 collaborators, it has come to our attention that there is no place to record gender in the patient demographics records in REDCap. We apologise for this oversight and request all collaborators [...]
Final chance to be part of GlobalSurg 2 The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg 2 data collection must be completed before 31 July 2016 Have you collected your data for GlobalSurg 2 yet? GlobalSurg 2 now has less than one month remaining for data collection If you have received approval for the project at your [...]
Ibrahim Raza, Awais Raza, Ahmed Banisadar and Syed Ahmed Raza share their GlobalSurg experience from King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan Ibrahim Raza I had always considered a long-distance multi-national research setup to be very challenging, so I had little optimism when my consultant surgeon Dr.Ahmad Uzair Qureshi asked me if [...]
The main analysis was for GlobalSurg 1 was published online in May 2016 in BJS with the print version following in July. Click here to read the manuscript in full The journey to final publication of any research study is often long as researchers strive to have their manuscript published in leading, high impact journals. [...]
June Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration The GlobalSurg 1 paper has now been published in the July print edition of BJS. Mortality of emergency abdominal surgery in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. British Journal of Surgery, Volume 103, Issue 8, pages 971–988, July 2016 The publication is available to read for free on the BJS website by clicking [...]
