Catalysing global surgery: a meta-research study on factors affecting surgical research collaborations with Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for rapid collaboration, research, and interventions. International research collaborations foster more significant responses to rapid global changes by enabling international, multicentre research, decreasing biases, and increasing study validity while reducing overall research time and costs. However, there has been low uptake of collaborative research by African institutions and individuals.

Aim

To systematically review facilitating factors and challenges to collaborative surgical research studies conducted in Africa.

Methodology

A meta-research review using PubMed®/MEDLINE and Embase on surgical collaboration in Africa from 1st of January 2011 to 31st of September 2021 in accordance t

SUBMITTER: Kirengo TO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10946148 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature