The rise in trauma & orthopaedic trainee-led research and audit collaborative projects in the United Kingdom since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic | Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences 2023

Author(s)

Tahir Khaleeq Trauma & Orthopaedic Department, Princess Royal Hospital, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, Telford, United Kingdom

Rakan Kabariti Trauma & Orthopaedic Department, Princess Royal Hospital, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, Telford, United Kingdom

Usman Ahmed Trauma & Orthopaedic Department, Princess Royal Hospital, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, Telford, United Kingdom

Abstract

Background and Objective: A significant increase has been observed globally in multi-centre trainee-led trauma & orthopaedic (T&O) research collaborative projects with more emphasis have been on tackling important research questions since the start of the COCID-19 pandemic. The objective of our analysis was to determine the number of trainee-led research collaborative projects in T&O in the United Kingdom that were started during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted to determine how many trainee-led national collaborative projects in T&O were conducted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown (March 2020 to June 2021) and the number of projects identified were compared to the previous year (2019). Any regional collaborative projects, projects that were started before the onset of COVID and projects of other surgical specialities were not included in the study. Results: There were no projects identified in 2019 while in the Covid pandemic lockdown we identified 10 traineeled collaborative trauma & orthopaedic projects with six of them being published with level of evidence from three to four. Conclusion: Covid was unprecedented and has placed considerable trials across healthcare. Our study highlights an increase in multi-centre trainee-led collaborative projects within the UK and it underlines the feasibility of such projects especially with the advent of social media and Redcap® which facilitate recruitment of new studies and data.

Publication Details

Page(s) 769-774

DOI 10.12669/pjms.39.3.7417

Published Journal: Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Year: 2023

Keywords

Trauma and Orthopaedics Traineeled Collaborative Projects Research and Audit Collaborative projects

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