July Newsletter

The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration

GlobalSurg 3 Update
Data.globalsurg.orgYou can now follow live updates on data collection as well as registrations at the GlobalSurg data centre

1820 collaborators now registered to take part in 757 mini-teams
412 Hospitals in 84 countries collecting data
2385 patient records entered into REDCap, 1112 patients’ data already completed

See our blog for a full update.

Have you finished your data collection?

When you have completed your 4-week data collection period (plus 30 day follow-up) you need to:

Ensure all your data collection forms are complete (& marked as complete) so every patient has 5 green dots on the dashboard of your REDCap Data project

Please note, as per the protocol, your data must be >95% complete to be included in analyses and for you to be included in the authorship list of publications

Confirm your data collection dates on ‘The Data Collection Completion’ form in the REDCap Authorship project. Please do this as soon as you have completed your data collection, even if your names do not yet appear – it is important we know your data collection dates for the validation study

Not yet registered for GlobalSurg 3?

Data collection for GlobalSurg 3 is open until the end of October (plus 30 day follow-up) so there is still time to register and collect data on your patients

All study information available at www.globalsurg.org/gs3
Register today https://is.gd/gs3_registration

Using the Team Changes form in REDCap

If you registered alone, or as a team of 2, and wish to add additional team members (up to a maximum total of 3 collaborators per team), you can do so using the ‘Team Changes’ form available in REDCap

To use the form, you will need the email address and ORCID ID of your new team member. Enter these on the form and then set the form to ‘UNVERIFIED’ to alert us that a new team member has been added.

The Team Changes form can only be used for the addition of new, previously unregistered, team members.It can not be used to:

Remove or replace a team member by over-writing their details
Move team members from one team to another
Combine individually registered collaborators into a team
Change your registered hospital

For these, or any other changes, you need to email [email protected]

Remember, please do not complete multiple registration forms as this will delay accounts being issued.

Save the Date!

GlobalSurg 3 Validation Study

We will shortly be announcing details of the GlobalSurg 3 validation study. This is an important aspect of the project as it helps ensure a robust, high quality dataset – essential to publishing the study in a high impact journal.

The validation study will involve checking case ascertainment and examining a small number of data points at each hospital. The results of the validation will not be used to change the primary dataset, only to observe how accurate the primary data is.

Each participating hosptial will require a single additional collaborator to act as the data validator.

To be a data validator a collaborator:

must work at a hospital contributing primary data to the study
must have access to hospital records
must not have taken part in the study already as a data collector

Instructions on how to register as a Data Validator will be announced soon via this newsletter

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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