Surgical Informatics

Does #digitalhealth remote follow-up improve postoperative wound care/diagnosis of #SSI? Our randomised control trial published in @Nature_NPJ Digital Medicine shows why this is likely to become the future of surgery nature.com/articles/s4174… #SoMe4Surgery #MedTwitter

Fantastic work by @kennethmclean92 and the team showing that smartphone follow-up of surgical wounds is feasible, useful for patients, and reduces the burden on healthcare services. #SoMe4Surgery

Our next paper is out! We ran a genome-wide association study of gallstones (43639 cases) in @uk_biobank, @FinnGen_FI and @genscot. We tested 16M variants and found 75 regions associated with gallstones. aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/he…

We had a special VP ⁦@WiscSurgery⁩ Thank you ⁦@ewenharrison⁩ for sharing the novel collaborative global research ⁦@MinterWiscSurg⁩ ⁦@KristinLongMD⁩ ⁦@UWGlobalHealth⁩ ⁦@EdinburghUni⁩

@GlobalSurg 3: Global variation in postoperative mortality & complications after cancer surgery, published in @TheLancet 16K patients underwent surgery across 82 countries. Better postoperative care & facilities could significantly improve #cancer survival thelancet.com/journals/lance…

I think it’s completely inappropriate to include a study about patient mortality after surgery in the “light-hearted and satirical” Christmas BMJ. What were you thinking?

Our latest @GlobalSurg paper on SSI in children! gh.bmj.com/content/5/12/e… big effects on kids in LMICs! #globalsurgery #globalsurg @NIHR_GSU @drfrancescopata @AdewaleAdisa1 @Soji_Ademuyiwa @nihr_gsu_lhub @ewenharrison @_Riinu_

Out next month from @CRC_MathStats , #RStats for #Health #DataScience by @ewenharrison and @_Riinu_. Perfect for any #healthcare professional wanting to go from R novice to R guru! routledge.com/R-for-Health-D… @tandfSTEM #statistics #tidyverse

Pediatric Cohort Results of Global Surg 2 being presented at the Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons @NIHRglobal @FalconRct @ewenharrison @Tom_Drake1 @Soji_Ademuyiwa @drfrancescopata

@ayamriad @GASOC_2015 @ASiTofficial @MedAllApp @ewenharrison @SurgData Hugely well deserved @ayamriad 🎉 Great to see all your hard work recognised by @ASiTofficial. A future global surgical research star for sure 🌟

@ayamriad @GASOC_2015 @ASiTofficial @MedAllApp @sr_knight1 @SurgData Delighted that all your hard work and dedication has been recognised with this fantastic prize @ayamriad Massive congratulations!!! 🎉

Absolutely delighted to have won the @GASOC_2015 Global Surgery Prize! 🎉Great end to an incredible conference @ASiTofficial @MedAllApp #SurgicalSummit Huge thank you to my supervisors @sr_knight1 @ewenharrison and @SurgData team!

Delighted that @RachelGuest1 has been awarded a Career Development Grant (Intermediate fellowship) by @wellcometrust to study IDH mutations in bile duct cancer in Edinburgh @edinsurg 👏🏼👏🏼🍾🍾

Science thrives on competing theories, but these are strange times. Times reflected in the Great Barrington Declaration - a statement that presents theories as facts and has no truck with competing views. gbdeclaration.org 1/5

Great to see the 4C Mortality Score launched in the @bmj_latest today. Implementation in hospitals will be important for second wave preparedness. - Risk stratification of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 bmj.com/content/370/bm… @ISARIC1 @CCPUKstudy @ProfCalumSemple

Delighted that R for Health Data Science from @_Riinu_ and me will be available in November! Yes, hitting the shelves in time for Christmas! GenRe-busting! 😂 #rstats

Our preprint is out! We report the detailed clinical characteristics of 451 children & young people hospitalised with covid-19 in the United Kingdom from the ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study @CCPUKstudy medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Here are some of the key points we found:

In the largest study of its kind (~35,000) @CCPUKstudy, South Asians in hospital with #COVID19 were 19% more likely to die. Higher rates of diabetes may explain part of this. All Ethnic Minority groups more likely to need intensive care and ventilation. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Important time to remember the maths of testing. When screening a low risk population, a positive COVID-19 swab is correct only 40% of the time! #Covid_19 #COVID19 #bayes