Ewen A Griffiths

• MD FRCS
• Consultant at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Cholecystectomy is amongst the most common surgical operations performed worldwide. Surgical candidates are treated for biliary pathologies, such as biliary cholic, cholecystitis and gallstone pancreatisis. The universal establishment of safe cholecystectomy is a complex process that relies not only on the operation itself, but also on various other factors such as promoting adequate training, improving hospital infrastructure, and enhancing peri-operative patient care. There remains a paucity of evidence around the variations of safe provision of laparoscopic surgery for gallbladder disease interntionally, including low- and middle-income countries.

To bridge this knowledge gap, the Global Evaluation of Cholecystectomy Knowledge and Outcomes (GECKO) study (GlobalSurg 4) will be an international collaborative effort, delivered by the GlobalSurg network, that will allow contemporaneous data collection on the quality of cholecystectomies using measures covering infrastructure, care processes and outcomes. It will be disseminated via contacts from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Global Surgery unit, leading emergency general surgeons and specialist organisations.

The study will span between 31st July 2023 to 19th November 2023, with follow-up at 30-day and one-year postoperatively

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REGISTRATION FORM

Dear Colleague,

You are invited to contribute to a Delphi exercise that will design a new type of outcome for patients who have emergency laparotomy for trauma and non-trauma - called a "Textbook Outcome". If you contribute to all rounds of the Delphi exercise, you will be listed as a co-author.