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 [...]
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 [...]
It now just over two weeks since the GlobalSurg 2 manuscript was published in Lancet Infectious Diseases and the interest generated by our study has been huge. The journal published a commentary alongside the article highlighting the impressive undertaking of collecting such a large and diverse dataset across so many different continents, and particularly praising [...]
BBC Worldwide Ewen Harrison from the GlobalSurg Team is interviewed live on BBC Worldwide about the GlobalSurg 2 study Radio Coverage Mexico Antonio Ramos-De La Medina, GlobalSurg National Lead for Mexico is interviewed about GlobalSurg 2 on XEU radio Listen to the full interview here Ghana [...]
GlobalSurg Publication Generates Worldwide Interest When GlobalSurg 2 launched in 2016 we cautiously hoped that we could match the success of GlobalSurg 1. GlobalSurg Collaborators around the world rose to the challenge and surpassed all our expectations! By the end of the study we had a dataset of over 12,000 patients from 343 hospitals in [...]
GlobalSurg 2 Published today by Lancet ID The main analysis from GlobalSurg 2 is published today by the leading international journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 12,539 Patients 343 Hospitals 66 Countries 1816 Collaborators Thank you and congratulations to everyone who took part in the study! To read the paper in full please click here You can also find all of the GlobalSurg [...]
Final call for corrections to the GlobalSurg 2 authorship list Deadline for corrections Wednesday November 15th 2017 Further requests for spelling corrections and name changes will not be possible after this date Did you participate in GlobalSurg 2? Last chance to check you and your team are correctly included Can we please ask all collaborators who [...]
GlobalSurg 2 Authorship List The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration The GlobalSurg 2 manuscript is in the final stages of peer review at a top journal Did you participate in GlobalSurg 2? Is your name correct on the authorship list? Thank you to everyone who has already submitted corrections for the GS 2 Authorship listCan we please ask all collaborators who [...]
