The National Leads meeting this week focused on adding the missing Operative Approach variable into REDCap and ensuring data entry periods are completed prior to allow the validation exercise to commence There is a summary and recording of meeting below for anyone not able to attend 13th December 2018 [...]
We're delighted to announce that the first site for our international randomised controlled trial, FALCON, is now fully activated and open to patient recruitment. This is an amazing landmark achievement both for the FALCON trial and for global surgery, and represents the first step towards our recruitment target of 5480 patients. Lead by Professor [...]
Attention all GlobalSurg 3 primary data collectors First round of GlobalSurg 3 authorship checking Your inclusion in the authorship list for the study is at risk if you do not complete these steps In preparation for the end of study, all collaborators must log into REDCap, navigate to the Authorship project & complete their details in the [...]
November Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Call for GlobalSurg 3 ValidatorsGeneral validator registration now open! If you did not take part in primary data collection for GlobalSurg 3, but would still like to contribute to the study, we are now recruiting data validators All validators will receive PubMed citation as authors on all publications [...]
GlobalSurg 3 in Numbers - November update Over 5000 patients entered into GlobalSurg 3 in the last month alone!Total number of patients entered in the study has now passed 12,000 (12,220)2967 researchers, 597 hospitals, 95 countries, 12220 patients!Thank you to everyone who is collecting data to make GlobalSurg 3 the biggest ever international study into surgical outcomes for cancer patients Follow live [...]
The National Leads meeting this week focused on GlobalSurg 3 data entry, including the end of the data collection period, and aspects of the validation exerciseThere is a summary and recording of meeting below for anyone not able to attendAccess the validation user guide here 8th November 2018 [...]
Kigali 2018 - what an amazing week! Everyone is heading home after a fantastic week in Kigali for the 2nd annual research prioritisation workshop from the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery. Over the course of the workshop we have seen the amazing progress made over the last 12 months by [...]
Training & Education Day! Day 3 of the NIHR Unit on Global Surgery workshop was all about training and education Remera Campus, University of Rwanda Teams from the Universities of Edinburgh and Birmingham had the pleasure of visiting the lovely Remera Campus at the University of Rwanda to deliver 2 separate [...]
Annual Research Prioritisation workshop gets off to great start! Today saw over 100 surgeons and researchers from more than 25 countries come together for the opening of the 2nd Annual Research Prioritisation workshop from NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery. The meeting was opened this morning by Professor Philip Cotton OBE, [...]
Last week of data collection for GlobalSurg 3 Final date for new patients to be entered into the study is 31st October 2018 GlobalSurg 3 Update 8937 patients now entered into GlobalSurg 3 from 77 countries! Thank you to everyone collecting date Follow live updates at :data.globalsurg.org Reminder: Data Collection & Data Entry Deadlines All [...]
