FALCON trial randomises its 100th patient FALCON is the first international surgical randomised controlled trial launched by the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery. Long standing supports of GlobalSurg will remember the GlobalSurg 2 study published in 2018 in Lancet Infectious Diseases. This study, which collected data on patients undergoing abdominal [...]
The National Leads meeting this week covered: Provisional final GlobalSurg 3 patient numbers & preliminary discussion of the results Final data cleaning Hospital Level survey 23rd July 2019 Listen to the recording of the meeting here
July Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Behind the scenes on GlobalSurg 3 Primary data entry The GlobalSurg 3 REDCap database is now finally locked - no further data entry or editing is possible. The data analysis team are now completing final data cleaning - this includes removing incomplete data, any duplicate patients and those that did not [...]
Final call for GlobalSurg 3 data validation All data entry for GlobalSurg 3 validation stages 1 and 2 must be complete by 23:59 on 30/06/2019. Validators who have not fully completed stages 1 and 2 will not be included in the study authorship list. Full details on completing both stages are shown below. [...]
June Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg 3 study updates Primary data entry The GlobalSurg 3 now has data from 16,441 patients at 449 hospitals in 84 countries, making the study our most successful to date. Thank you to all our teams of primary data collectors for this amazing total! The REDCap database for GlobalSurg 3 primary data will be finally [...]
Katie Shaw and Stephen Knight from the GlobalSurg Team use SlackChat to talk about the GlobalSurg 3 Hospital Level Survey The hospital level survey is an extension of GlobalSurg 3 and aims to capture information about each participating hospital, together with the services and care the hospital can usually provide to patients with [...]
May Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg 3 validation update The Deadline for the validation study has now passed. Thank you to the 75% of validators who have already completed validation stages 1 & 2. 243 hospitals now have a completely validated dataset. If you are in the 25% of validators yet to complete the data validation at [...]
The National Leads meeting this week covered: Validation Data Analysis Hospital Level Survey There is a summary and recording of meeting below for anyone not able to attend 2nd May 2019 Listen to the recording of the meeting here
GlobalSurg 3 Validation The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Final Reminder: GlobalSurg 3 Validation Data Entry Deadline: 10pm (GMT) Tuesday 23rd April 2019 Please ensure you have completed validation stage 1 and validation stage 2 by this date Need help? If you need help with any aspect of data validation including accessing your REDCap validators account, please email [...]
April Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Have you heard the latest podcast from the GlobalSurg 3 team? This month's podcast is about the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and its use across the GlobalSurg network. You can listen to the podcast on the GlobalSurg SoundCloud by clicking here The discussion is about the pooled analysis [...]
