None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This international prospective, multicentre global cohort study will include consecutive patients undergoing surgery within an overall six-week window between 31st ‘August and 11th October 2026. This study will generate granular data on the global variability in post operative complications for a range of common operations. This will offer insights to the global burden of disease, access to emergency and elective care, imaging and ‘rescue’ from complications. This data will aid in the creation of guidelines to improve care across the world and informing trial design to target areas of preventable morbidity and mortality.
Interventions
Surg Week 2 is a prospective, multicentre, global cohort study study which will include
consecutive patients undergoing surgery through any operative approach
This prospective cohort study has a waiver of patient consent and no patient will be directly contacted. Routinely collected data will be obtained from hospital medical records on details regarding admissions for elective and emergency surgery and surgical outcomes/complications.
The overall data collection window will be from 31st Au
Surg Week 2 is a prospective, multicentre, global cohort study study which will include consecutive patients undergoing surgery through any operative approach This prospective cohort study has a waiver of patient consent and no patient will be directly contacted. Routinely collected data will be obtained from hospital medical records on details regarding admissions for elective and emergency surgery and surgical outcomes/complications. The overall data collection window will be from 31st August - 11 October 2026; Each hospital site will collect data over a 7-day consecutive data collection period with a subsequent 30-day follow-up. These collection periods have been pre-specified.. All patients who meet the inclusion criteria and are admitted to hospital within the study period dates defined above would be eligible for inclusion.
Sponsors
NIHR Global Surgery Unit, University of Birmingham
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
All patients who meet the inclusion criteria and are admitted to hospital for elective or emergency surgery within the defined study period dates will be included in the Surg Week 2 Study. Inclusion criteria: Age: No age restrictions Any elective or emergency operation performed in an operating theatre All surgical specialties Approach: Open, laparoscopic, laparoscopic assisted, laparoscopic converted, robotic, robotic converted procedures are all eligible. Both day case surgery and inpatient operations are eligible.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patient who do not undergo an operation Patients undergoing angiography, endoscopic procedures or minor procedures Patients should be entered into study only once
Outcome results
None listed