Lion's Den Result The fantastic microstudy presentations from yesterday culminated this morning with the results. The exceptionally high standard of all the studies made the judging challenging. In Oscars-style, Antonio and Jean-Leon announced the winners. Mela from the Philippines with her innovative stoma study came first. Rachel from South Africa with her burns study was [...]
Sara Al-Saqqa writes about the enthusiastic launch of GlobalSurg 3 in Palestine/Gaza Last year, the first meeting of GlobalSurg in Palestine had a maximum of 15 people. This year, I am proud to say that we had to bring extra chairs to the meeting room! Around 300 collaborators have registered for the GlobalSurg 3 study. [...]
598 Mini-team registrations at is.gd/gs3_registration. 182 Mini-teams who have been issued with REDCap accounts. 11% Number of registration forms that contain an ORCID ID which is already registered. All registrations must be unique. You cannot register twice. You cannot register on multiple teams. Please contact us if you think this is an issue: [email protected]. [...]
We're very excited to publish a study looking at patients undergoing appendicectomy in GlobalSurg 1. Laparoscopy in management of appendicitis in high-, middle-, and low-income countries: a multicenter, prospective, cohort study The use of laparoscopy in low-income settings is controversial, yet many of our collaborators report the apparent benefits and wish they could do more. [...]
https://twitter.com/Atul_Gawande/status/748982753509662722 GlobalSurg 1 reported a strong association between use of the surgical safety checklist and lower mortality after emergency abdominal surgery. George Molina from Atul Gawande's Ariadne Labs has posted a thoughtful piece on these findings. Here are some highlights. What better way to study these difficult research questions about the quality of and barriers [...]
The Global Frontiers Conference 2016 is being held today in London. We are grateful to the organisers for the opportunity to speak about the great work being done by all GlobalSurg collaborators. Everyone was very impressed with everything you have all achieved. Ed Fitzgerald spoke clearly about GlobalSurg 1. The first paper will be published [...]
We will now be providing automated information on country and centre recruitment throughout the GS2 study period. At the moment, we have provided overall country recruitment, together with the top 5 recruiting centres for the current month. This updates every 30 minutes. Feedback on this is welcomed. Should we expand it to show more? Should [...]
GlobalSurg 2 is now go! And what a start we have had. An unprecedented number of collaborators and hospitals are involved and data has started arriving already. Congratulations to teams in Lithuania, San Mario, Argentina and Greece who have been the first to submit data, with France, UK, Italy and Sweden not far [...]
A Happy New Year to everyone! The standard patient recruitment period has now closed. Thank you to everyone who is working hard to make this first study such a success. At the time of writing we have 8267 patients entered, with forms closed on 6517. This in itself is an immense achievement! I know many [...]
We are pleased to announce that the GlobalSurg protocol has just been published in BMJ Open. As well as this, the study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov on the 29 June 2014. Both of these are important to ensure transparency and that the protocol doesn't change after the start of data commencement.
