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Boccalatte LA, Modolo MM, Calvache JA, Lincango-Naranjo EP, Ataíde-Gomes GM, Lima-Buarque I, Pérez-Rivera CJ, Shu-Yip SB, Vásquez-Ojeda XP, Olivos M, Batista S, Aguilera-Arévalo ML, Gómez-Fernández H, Arévalo D, Nepogodiev D, Picciochi M, Simoes J. Surgical multicenter collaborative studies: ¿What happen in Latin America? CIR CIR 2021; 89:733-739. [PMID: 34851579 DOI: 10.24875/ciru.21000282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND GlobalSurg is an international group of researchers whose purpose is to conduct and disseminate robust collaborative, international and multicenter studies. OBJECTIVE To expose the necessary strategies and the barriers crossed in conducting massive multicenter studies in surgery. METHOD During the second semester of 2020, the study Surg-Week Prospective International Cohort Study was carried out. Surg-Week has been the largest international study in the field of surgery to date, with 141,582 patients included. A total of 4975 mini-teams, of between 1 and 5 members, collected data from 116 countries on all continents. RESULTS The creation of an official website for the study, reports with relevant information via email or groups via WhatsApp, formation of a Dissemination Committee of the protocol, delivery of webinars on recent team publications, appointment of leaders at the national and international level, and outreach through partnerships, were the strategies used for the development of the research. However, the barriers turned out to involve different aspects. CONCLUSIONS Collaborative work allows establishing networks between different professionals with the goal of improving the quality of management, health policies and care of our patients in a timely manner of constant change.
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Affiliation(s)
- Luis A Boccalatte
- Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Departamento de Cirugía, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Barros Luco Trudeau, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile.,Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Luis Lagomaggiore, Mendoza, Argentina
| | - José A Calvache
- Servicio de Cirugía, Hospital de Niños Roberto del Río, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Departamento de Anestesiología, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Países Bajos
| | - Eddy P Lincango-Naranjo
- Unidad de Investigación de Conocimientos y Evaluación, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, Estados Unidos
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- Departamento de Cirugía General, Fundación Cardioinfantil-Instituto de Cardiología, Bogotá, Colombia.,Departamento de Cirugía General, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Servicio de Cirugía, Hospital de Niños Roberto del Río, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
| | - Sylvia Batista
- Departamento de Cirugía y Especialidad, INTEC (Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo), Santo Domingo, República Dominicana
| | - Ma Lorena Aguilera-Arévalo
- Departamento de Cirugía, Hospital General San Juan de Dios, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala
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- Centro Médico de la Mujer ARCO, San Salvador, El Salvador
| | - Dimitri Nepogodiev
- NIHR Unit on Global Surgery, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, Reino Unido
| | - Maria Picciochi
- America's Coordinator GlobalSurg-CovidSurg Week, North America, Central America, South America, Caribbean
| | - Joana Simoes
- Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca, Amadora, Portugal
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