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?
This refers to the ability of the programme to continue operating long-term
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?
This refers to the uptake of the programme
What is adoption?
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?
This seeks to assess whether the programme engaged its intended target population.
What is reach?
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 degree to which the intervention was done the way it was 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?
The term used to describe how well the programme is received by the intended users.
What is acceptability?
Piloting your survey ahead of time in order to refine questions to improve response rate
What is pre-testing?