Centre for Global Surgery
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Research

The core mandate of the centre is research with teaching/learning and policy/advocacy as secondary pillars. 


Active Projects​

Delays to Access Care

  • Identifying barriers and enablers to increase surgical capacity in rural district hospitals in Northern Cape
  • Barriers to accessing care for chronic wounds in the Khayelitsha sub-district​
  • Creating an Appendectomy algorithm for use in a provincial database
  • Assessing time to accessing appendectomy in the Western Cape
  • Referral pathways and time to care for injured patients
  • Time to access breast cancer in Cape Metro West

Health System Strengthening

  • Pediatric trauma patterns as experienced by EMS in the Cape Metro
  • Assessing barriers to equitable access to quality care and patients outcome
  • Ongoing needs in global surgery
  • Policy landscape for injury care in South Africa
  • Interpersonal violence and associated risk factors for 4 LMIC
  • Mapping gunshot injuries in the Cape Metro
  • Types and mechanism of traumatic injuries and related risk factors

Community-Based Research

  • Can Indigenous Knowledge Healers to Screen for Diabetes Foot Infection in Rural South Africa: Lessons Learned for Working Across Health Sectors?
  • Why injured people seek indigenous knowledge healers: A qualitative study
  • Expanding the lenses of Community Engagement in Global Research: Key Lessons from the Equi-Injury Project
  • Improving surgical care in rural South Africa: potential collaborations between indigenous and formal health sectors

Epidemiological Studies

  • Fracture Evaluation Management & Understanding Research Global (FEMUR): A global prospective
  • Systematic review on the Incidence of lower limb amputations among diabetic patients in LMICs
  • Outcomes in emergency and elective colorectal cancer surgery at Tygerberg hospital
  • Pre-op functional status in emergency and elective colorectal cancer surgery at Tygerberg hospital
  • Systematic review on major lower limb amputations, global incidence, outcomes, and aetiology​​​

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