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!

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This is second paper to be published from the GlobalSurg 1 dataset and looks specifically at pediatric emergency abdominal surgery.

The data reveal the likelihood of dying after emergency abdominal surgery is up to seven times greater for a child in a low income country compared to a high income country

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BMJ Global Health is a fully open access journal and the manuscript can be read in full for free here

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