Global Surgery
This type of hospital is supposed to do essential and emergency surgery
What is a district hospital?
The national language of Ireland besides English
What is Gaeilge?
The delivery of health care and the exchange of health-care information across distances
What is Telemedicine?
This refers to the ability of a local health system to maintain an intervention over time
What is sustainability?
This occurs when respondents become tired or bored during a survey, leading to lower quality responses or dropout
What is survey fatigue?
The surgical specialist that performs c-sections
What is an obstetrician?
The famous cliffs on the west coast of Ireland
What is the Cliffs of Moher?
The name of the mHealth app that is used in South Africa for patient referrals
What is Vula?
Extent to which an intervention can be successfully implemented within a given setting
What is feasibility?
This type of question allows respondents to answer in their own words, providing more detailed feedback
What is an open-ended question?
The ideal minimum amount of time to reach a hospital that provides surgical care
What is 2 hours?
The only university in Ireland that focusses on health sciences and medicine
What is RCSI?
The name of a the most commonly used messaging app that many doctors use to share patient information
What is WhatsApp?
A term used to describe the expansion of an intervention beyond pilot
What is scalability?
The percentage of people who complete a survey out of the total number contacted
What is a response rate?
The total operations done per population and is a global surgery indicator
What is surgical volume?
The name of the river that runs through Dublin
What is the River Liffey?
The name of the act that protects patients identifiable information in South Africa
What is the POPIA act?
This term in implementation research refers to the degree to which an intervention is delivered as intended
What is fidelity?
A tool that is used to measure hospital facility surgical capacity
What is WHO SSAT or PIPES?
The term describing death within 30 days after surgery, a key indicator used to measure surgical safety and outcomes
What is perioperative mortality?
The Irish word for Cheers!
What is Slainte?
Data that accompany and describe the primary data
What is metadata?
The term used to describe whether an intervention works or not (achieves its intended goals)
What is effectiveness?
Piloting your survey ahead of time in order to refine questions to improve response rate
What is pre-testing?