Global Surgery
This type of hospital should provide essential and emergency operation according to the WHO
What is a district hospital?
The national language of Ireland besides English
What is Gaeilge?
What term describes the use of technology to deliver health-care information across distances
What is Telemedicine?
What is the term for how well an intervention is maintained 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?
What does the O in SAO density stand for?
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?
What is the term that a given intervention is agreeable or satisfactory?
What is acceptability?
This type of question allows respondents to answer in their own words, providing more detailed feedback
What is an open-ended question?
The minimum time to reach a hospital that provides surgical care (per Global Surgery indicator)
What is 2 hours?
The only university in Ireland that focusses on health sciences and medicine
What is RCSI?
A popular messaging app used by doctors to share patient information
What is WhatsApp?
What is the term for expansion of an intervention to more sites?
What is scale-up?
The percentage of people who complete a survey out of the total number contacted
What is a response rate?
What is the name of the indicator that designates the minimum number of operations done per population?
What is surgical volume?
The name of the river that runs through Dublin
What is the River Liffey?
What is patient consent?
What is the term that describes 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?
This global surgery indicator measures in-hospital mortality
What is perioperative mortality?
The Irish word for Cheers!
What is Slainte?
Data that accompany and describe the primary data
What is metadata?
What is 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?