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 amazing achievement by our network and exceeded all expectations for the study.

Have you heard our new Podcast yet?

Meet the team and listen to our latest podcast describing our experiences of setting up and running GlobalSurg 3:

https://globalsurg.org/who-is-enquiryglobalsurg-org/

GlobalSurg 3 – what happens next?

In order to demonstrate the GlobalSurg 3 dataset is robust and of high quality, we are now conducting the validation exercise.

As preparation for this process, our data analysis team are busy checking all data points are complete and all the operation dates fall within the stated data collection time period for each team.

We may be in touch with some teams directly in order to ask for some data points to be completed or double checked – this is simply to allow the validation process to go as smoothly as possible.

No data or teams will be removed from the study during this process

Call for GlobalSurg 3 Data Validators

Still looking for a way to be involved in GlobalSurg 3?

If you did not participate in primary data collection, but are based at a hospital that entered data into the study, please consider registering as a data validator.

We are aiming to validate a sample of data from every participating hospital.

430 hospitals took part in primary data collection, 267 validators have already registered; we need your help to find validators at the remaining 163 hospitals to meet the target.

You can check if your hospital requires a validator by clicking here
To register as a validator please click here
Further information on the validation exercise is available here:

All validators will receive PubMed citation as authors on all publications arising from the study

Would you like to share your experiences of taking part in GlobalSurg 3 at your hospital?

We’d love to hear from you!

You could write a short blog post for our website or feature in a podcast!

Let us know by emailing [email protected]

GlobalSurg and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

New data protection rules come into force in Europe at the end of May 2018.
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