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Professor Dion Morton chaired a vibrant plenary session on Global Surgery at the European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) Annual Meeting in Austria. The ESCP has become increasingly supportive of Global Surgery over the past five years, and this was the biggest and most prominent session on the agenda to date. Two Hub leads from [...]
FALCON trial launches in Nigeria Nigeria has become the latest NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery hub country to launch the FALCON trial testing interventions to reduce surgical site infections in low and middle come countries. The first hospital to open to recruitment was Lagos University Teaching Hospital, followed by Obafemi [...]
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 [...]
Katie Shaw and Stephen Knight from the GlobalSurg Team use SlackChat to talk about the GlobalSurg 3 Hospital Level Survey The hospital level survey is an extension of GlobalSurg 3 and aims to capture information about each participating hospital, together with the services and care the hospital can usually provide to patients with [...]
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 [...]
GlobalSurg 3 Team Slack Chat The GlobalSurg 3 team are currently drafting a manuscript describing the methods of the study. This morning we had a planning discussion on Slack - our favourite team collaboration tool. We've decided to share our Slack Chat with you so you can follow our progress as we prepare [...]
GlobalSurg 3 Validation The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration GlobalSurg 3 Validation Update Data Entry Deadline Extended The data entry deadline for the GlobalSurg 3 validation exercise has been extended to 10pm (GMT) Tuesday 23rd April 2019 Validation Accounts Update We have now issued REDCap validators accounts for 244 validators - as soon as you receive notification that [...]
Josh Tulley and Bex Hughes have been team members for GlobalSurg 3 at Walsall Manor Hospital. Here Josh guest blogs about his experience of being a collaborator for the study. When I first heard of GlobalSurg3 (GS3), I jumped at the opportunity to be a part of the collaboration, and recruited a colleague to [...]
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 [...]
GlobalSurg 3 - The Challenges of Data Validation The Global Surgical Outcomes Collaboration Thank you to all our GlobalSurg 3 validators! Data validation on this scale is not an easy task - GlobalSurg are the first collaborative group attempting to validate such a large, international dataset in this way. With your help we are setting a new international [...]
