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 [...]
Publication Announcement The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Special BJS Edition on Global Surgery The prestigious surgical journal BJS has just published it's special edition for 2019 focussing on Global Surgery and we're delighted to announce publication of 2 manuscripts related to GlobalSurg in this edition. All the articles in the Global Surgery edition are open access (free to read) - [...]
June Newsletter The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration New data centre for GlobalSurg Data.globalsurg.org We are delighted to announce the launch of the new GlobalSurg data centre - data.globalsurg.org The data centre aims to improve access to GlobalSurg datasets and to improve data literacy by providing educational information on data analysis and presentation. You can follow live [...]
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. [...]
GlobalSurg 1 Paediatric Paper Published in BMJ Global Health The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg are delighted to announce the publication of the next GlobalSurg 1 paper 'Determinants of morbidity and mortality following emergency abdominal surgery in children in low-income and middle-income countries' Published today in BMJ GlobalHealth Congratulations to all our collaborators! Click here [...]
The first paper to be published from the GlobalSurg 1 dataset has now become the most viewed article ever published by BJS. For more details please visit the altimetrics page via this link https://wiley.altmetric.com/details/7142726#score
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 [...]
