Help develop a basket of key surgical procedures The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery established six metrics with which to globally assess the performance of surgery systems. However, variation in definitions of surgery between countries makes these metrics difficult to collect and interpret. An international team are working to establish a list of [...]
GlobalSurg 3 Team Slack Chat The GlobalSurg 3 team are currently drafting a manuscript describing the methods of the study. This morning we had a planning discussion on Slack - our favourite team collaboration tool. We've decided to share our Slack Chat with you so you can follow our progress as we prepare [...]
The National Leads meeting this week covered: Validation The hospital level survey Advance authorship list information There is a summary and recording of meeting below for anyone not able to attend 27th March 2019 Listen to the recording of the meeting here [...]
March Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Another new publication for the combined GlobalSurg 1 & 2 datasets Global variation in anastomosis and end colostomy formation following left-sided colorectal resection Published earlier this month in BJS Open: https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs5.50138 Congratulations to all GlobalSurg 1 & 2 collaborators - you are all listed as authors on this new [...]
Teams that have not yet confirmed their data entry via the 'Data Entry Completion' form in the 'Authorship' project of their REDCap account have until 23:59 (GMT) Sunday 24th March to do so URGENT - Action Required Finalisation of your 'Data Collection Completion' form is urgently required If your team has not yet [...]
GlobalSurg 3 Validation The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg 3 Validation Update Data Entry Deadline Extended The data entry deadline for the GlobalSurg 3 validation exercise has been extended to 10pm (GMT) Tuesday 23rd April 2019 Validation Accounts Update We have now issued REDCap validators accounts for 244 validators - as soon as you receive notification that [...]
Josh Tulley and Bex Hughes have been team members for GlobalSurg 3 at Walsall Manor Hospital. Here Josh guest blogs about his experience of being a collaborator for the study. When I first heard of GlobalSurg3 (GS3), I jumped at the opportunity to be a part of the collaboration, and recruited a colleague to [...]
GlobalSurg 3 Validation The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Reminder: Data Entry Deadline The data entry deadline for the GlobalSurg 3 validation exercise is 10pm Monday 18th March 2019 please ensure all your validation data is entered into REDCap by this date Need help? If you need help with any aspect of data validation including accessing [...]
February Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg 3 primary data entry now complete Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to collect and enter data for GlobalSurg 3. Primary data entry closed at the end of January with a final total exceeding 15,000 patient records from 430 hospitals in 84 countries - this is an [...]
Meet the team & listen to our new podcast GlobalSurg 3 opened to data collection in April 2018, less than a year later the project has 15,000 patient records from 430 hospitals in 85 countries - an massive effort from everyone involved. [...]
