Table 1 Studies included in systematic review of surgical collaboratives
Author & publication year | Acronym & name of collaborativea | African country(s) involved | Research focus & surgical specialty |
|---|---|---|---|
Abbas et al. (2021) [27] | GICS, Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Impact of COVID-19 on global paediatric surgery |
Alkhaffaf et al. (2021) [28] | GASTROS International Working Group, Gastric Cancer Surgery Trials Reported Outcome Standardization | Nigeria | Gastric cancer surgery General surgery |
Alphonsus et al. (2021) [29] | Collaborators for EPIC2: BNP study | South Africa | Cardiovascular risk stratification in surgery Perioperative care |
Beattie et al. (2021) [30] | StEP COMPAC Group, the Standardized Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine Core Outcome Measures in Perioperative and Anesthetic Care | South Africa | Perioperative cardiovascular adverse events Perioperative care |
Breedt et al. (2021) [31] | AfroSurg Collaborative | South Africa, Botswana, Namibia | Surgical safety Health system management |
Firth et al. (2021) [32] | Mbarara SQUAD Consortium, Surgical Quality Assurance Database | Uganda | Surgical safety General surgery, trauma, perioperative, anaesthesia |
Held et al. (2021) [33] | Authorship group “Knee surgery in LRS” | South Africa | Knee surgery Orthopaedics |
Kachapila et al. (2021) [34] | NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, ASOS Investigators, STAR Surg Collaborative, National Institute for Health Research | Algeria, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe | Lowering surgery hospital costs Health system management |
Kanmounye et al. (2021) [35] | CAANS Young Neurosurgeons Committee and WFNS Young Neurosurgeons Committee Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies & The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies | Cameroon, South Africa, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, Morocco, Algeria, Ethiopia, Niger, Congo, Uganda | Neurosurgical training in Africa |
Masters et al. (2021) [36] | ORCA, Orthopaedic Research Collaboration for Africa Orca Investigators | South Africa | Gunshot-related orthopaedic trauma |
Mohan et al. (2021) [37] | NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma, National Institute for Health Research | Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda | Traumatic brain injury Neurosurgery, trauma surgery |
Moysidis et al. (2021) [38] | The Global Consortium | South Africa, Egypt | Autologous rental transplantation Ophthalmology |
Network for Peri-operative Critical Care (2021) [39] | N4PCc, Network for Peri-operative Critical care | Ethiopia | Implementation of a perioperative registry Perioperative care |
Oesophago-Gastric Anastomotic Audit Collaborative (2021) [40] | OGAA, Oesophago-Gastric Anastomotic Audit Collaborative | Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria | Mortality from esophagectomy in oesophageal ca General surgery, upper GI surgery |
PaedSurg Africa Research, 2021 [41] | PaedSurg Africa Research Collaboration | Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritania, DRC, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Cameroon, Ghana | Paediatric surgical conditions |
Sanz Cortes et al. (2021) [42] | International Fetoscopic Neural Tube Defect Repair Consortium | South Africa | Fetoscopic surgery Paediatric surgery |
Biccard et al. (2020) [43] | APORG, African Peri-operative Research Group working group | South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Botswana, Liberia, Egypt, Zambia, Senegal, Congo, Madagascar, Mali, Benin | Perioperative research |
Brenner et al. (2020) [44] | CRASH-3 trial collaborators, corticosteroid randomization after significant head injury | Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, | Improving outcome of traumatic brain injury Neurosurgery, trauma surgery |
Chu et al. (2020) [45] | AfroSurg Collaborative | South Africa | Access to safe surgery in Africa Health system management |
Delisle et al. (2020) [46] | SOS & GlobalSurg, Surgical Outcomes Study Groups and GlobalSurg Collaborative | Algeria, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe | Access to safe surgery in Africa General surgery, anaesthesia, health system management |
Edlmann et al. (2020) [47] | iCORIC, International Collaborative Research Initiative on Chronic Subdural Haematoma study group | Ethiopia | Chronic subdural hematoma Neurosurgery |
EuroSurg et al. (2020) [48] | EuroSurg Collaborative | South Africa | International surgical clinical audits General surgery, colorectal surgery |
Ford et al. (2020) [49] | OxPLORE Collaboration, Oxford Pediatrics Linking Oncology Research with Electives | Tanzania, Rwanda | Student-led research collaboration; Wilms’ tumour Paediatric surgery |
GlobalSurg et al. (2020) [50] | GlobalSurg Collaborative | Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia, Burundi, Botswana, Malawi, Morocco, Rwanda, Kenya | Surgical site infections in children Paediatric surgery |
Held et al. (2020) [51] | LION, Learning Innovation via Orthopaedic Networks Group | South Africa, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Namibia | Orthopaedic training in Southern Africa |
Lynch et al. (2020) [52] | ARGO, African Research Group for Oncology Collaborative | Nigeria | Oncology research, breast biopsy Oncology |
Muhly et al. (2020) [53] | PPOG, Pediatric Perioperative Outcomes Group | South Africa | Paediatric perioperative Outcomes Perioperative care |
Pindyck et al. (2020) [54] | African Intussusception Surveillance Network | Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe | Intussusception Paediatric surgery |
Protopapas et al. (2020) [55] | COVID-19 International Congenital Heart Surgery Taskforce | Ghana, South Africa | Impact of COVID-19 on paediatric cardiac surgery |
Robertson et al. (2020) [56] | WFNS Young Neurosurgeons Committee, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Young Neurosurgeons Committee | Rwanda, Morocco, Algeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon | Neurosurgery training |
McMeekin et al. (2020) [57] | OVIVA collaborators, Oral versus Intravenous Antibiotics for Bone and Joint Infection | Kenya | Antibiotics for orthopaedics infections |
Robertson et al. (2020) [58] | Collaborative Working Group | Cameroon, Malawi, South Africa, Rwanda | Task shifting and sharing in neurosurgery in LMIC |
Papadopoulos et al. (2020) [59] | CGRN, International Study of Childhood Glaucoma — Childhood Glaucoma Research Network Study Group | Ghana | Childhood glaucoma Ophthalmology |
Brenner et al. (2019) [60] | HALT-IT Trial Collaborators, Haemorrhage Alleviation with Tranexamic acid-Intestinal system | Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan | RCT on GIT bleeding and tranexamic acid General surgery |
A. E.-A. H. A. R. C. S. M. group et al. (2019) [61] | E-AHPBA, European-African HepatoPancreatoBiliary Association Research Collaborative Study management group | South Africa | Hepatobiliary disease General surgery, hepatobiliary surgery |
Dewan et al. (2019) [62] | PGSS, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change collaborators | South Africa, Uganda | Access to safe neurosurgery in LMCI |
GlobalSurg (2019) [63] | GlobalSurg Collaborative | Benin, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Libya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Sudan | Colostomy and colorectal resection General surgery |
GlobalSurg (2019) [64] | GlobalSurg Collaborative | Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Libya, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia | WHO Surgical Safety Checklist use audit General surgery |
Iverson et al. (2019) [65] | Safe Surgery 2020 Collaborators | Ethiopia | Access surgical capacity Health system management |
Li et al. (2019) [66] | OVIVA Trial Collaborators, Oral versus Intravenous Antibiotics for Bone and Joint Infection | Kenya | Antibiotics for orthopaedic infections |
Robertson et al. (2019) [67] | Global Neurosurgery Survey Collaborators | Cameroon, Malawi, South Africa, Rwanda | Task shifting and sharing in neurosurgery |
Fink et al. (2018) [68] | Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network, PALISI Global Health Subgroup, and Prevalence of Acute Critical Neurological Disease in Children: A Global Epidemiological Assessment (PANGEA) Investigators Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators, Prevalence of Acute Critical Neurological Disease in Children: A Global Epidemiological Assessment Investigators | Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana | Epidemiology and outcome of TBI & infectious encephalopathy Paediatric Surgery, Neurosurgery |
GlobalSurg (2018) [69] | GlobalSurg Collaborative | Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Zambia | Surgical site infection after GI surgery General surgery |
Goodman et al. (2018) [70] | GICS Collaborators, Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery | Nigeria | Optimizing children’s surgical care in LMIC Paediatric surgery |
Israels et al. (2018) [71] | The Collaborative Wilms Tumour Africa team | Malawi, Cameroon, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ethiopia | Wilms’ tumour Paediatric surgery |
Tate et al. (2018) [72] | African Intussusception Surveillance Network | Conga, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe | Intussusception Paediatric surgery |
Reilingh et al. 2018 [73] | International Consensus Group on Cartilage Repair of the Ankle | South Africa | Ankle repair surgery Orthopaedics |
Van Dijk et al. (2018) [74] | International Consensus Group on Cartilage Repair of the Ankle | South Africa | Ankle repair surgery Orthopaedics |
Sprague et al. (2018) [75] | INORMUS Investigators, International Orthopaedic Multicentre Study | Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, Botswana, Ghana | Musculoskeletal trauma in LMCIs Orthopaedics |
Dresser et al. (2017) [76] | Global Emergency Care Collaborative Investigators | Uganda | Emergency surgical care |
Brink et al. (2017) [77] | NASSA, Netcare Antimicrobial Stewardship Study Alliance | South Africa | Peri-operative antibiotic use |
Ekure et al. (2017) [78] | Nigerian Pediatric Cardiology Study Group | Nigeria | Paediatric heart disease/congenital heart defects |
Czauderna et al. (2016) [79] | CHIC, The Children’s Hepatic Tumors International Collaboration | Malawi | Children hepatic tumours |
Yang et al. (2016) [80] | Africa Network for Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases | Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda | Hepatocellular carcinoma in Africa General surgery |
Mwinga et al. (2015) [81] | SIRCLE Collaboration | Kenya | Quality of surgical care Health system management |