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NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery & COVIDSurg Collaborative 2026, '30-day postoperative mortality and the effects of hospital preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pooled analysis of prospective international cohort studies', The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, vol. 62, 101566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101566
European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) WOLVERINE Collaborating Group 2026, 'An international cohort study of wound closure and surgical site infection prevention strategies in abdominal surgery (WOLVERINE): Protocol for a multicenter international study', Colorectal Disease, vol. 28, no. 2, e70364. https://doi.org/10.1111/codi.70364
Sholadoye, TT, Williams, OM, Elebute, OA, Ekwunife, OH, Alakaloko, F, Abdur-Rahman, L, Kruger, D, Libhaber, E, Kachapila, M, Oyegbola, C, Oyewande, OA, Bhangu, A, Harrison, EM, Nepogodiev, D, Glasbey, JC, Morton, D, Ameh, EA, Ademuyiwa, AO & CATERPILLAR study group 2026, 'Catastrophic health expenditures associated with single admission for paediatric surgery in a low-resource setting: a multicentre study', BMJ Global Health, vol. 11, no. 7, e022894. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2025-022894
Kamarajah, SK, Adisa, AO, Aggarwal, A, Berhe, A, Glasbey, J, Harrison, E, Haque, PD, Lawani, I, Mathai, S, Bravo, AM, Pramesh, CS, Roslani, AC, Varghese, C, Bhangu, A & NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery 2026, 'Evaluating quality of colorectal cancer surgery across elective and emergency health systems: secondary analysis of prospective cohort studies in 95 countries', BJS Open, vol. 10, no. 4, zrag062. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsopen/zrag062
Abiola, OJ, Nepogodiev, D, Glasbey, J, Omar, O, Linder, C, Ledda, V & Bhangu, A 2026, 'Feasibility and impact of a large language model pipeline for surgical trial abstracts', npj Digital Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-026-02788-y
NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery & GlobalSurg Collaborative 2026, 'Safety and equity in scaling minimally invasive surgery worldwide in 109 countries using cholecystectomy as a tracer procedure: a prospective cohort study', The Lancet Global Health, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. e199-e212. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(25)00476-0
Nigerian Surgical Research Collaborative 2026, 'Surgical site infections after abdominal surgeries: a prospective multicentre study in 53 Nigerian hospitals', BMJ Global Health, vol. 11, no. 6, e021423. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2025-021423
Stengler, AL, Kleeff, J, Rieder, L, Glasbey, JC, Bhangu, AA, Harrison, EM, Ronellenfitsch, U & COVIDSurg Collaborative 2026, 'The effect of delays in cancer surgery due to the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer resectability and postoperative mortality in different tumor entities', Discover Oncology, vol. 17, no. 1, 716. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12672-026-04430-5
GBD 2021 Europe Life Expectancy Collaborators 2025, 'Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021', The Lancet Public Health, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. e172-e188. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00009-X
GBD 2019 Acute and Chronic Care Collaborators 2025, 'Characterising acute and chronic care needs: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019', Nature Communications, vol. 16, 4235. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56910-x
Bellato, V, Blackwell, S, Elhadi, M, Grove, T, Massey, L, Vieira, B, Denys, A, Pata, F, van Ramshorst, GH & 2024 European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) Collaborating Group 2025, 'Colorectal and emergency surgical patients in the literature supporting EHS and AHS guidelines on abdominal wound closure: a granular analysis', Hernia, vol. 29, no. 1, 307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10029-025-03493-7
Coulman, KD, Elliott, L, Blencowe, NS, Yeung, J, Rooshenas, L, Hinchliffe, RJ, Mouton, R & collaborators 2025, 'Frameworks for the design and reporting of anaesthesia interventions in perioperative clinical trials', BJA Open, vol. 13, 100374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjao.2024.100374
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Environmentally Sustainable Hospitals in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries 2025, 'Global anaesthesia practice using inguinal hernia surgery as a tracer condition: a secondary analysis of an international prospective cohort study', Anaesthesia, vol. 80, no. 11, pp. 1343-1351. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16686
Review article
Phelan, LN, Agbeko, AE, Aregawi, AB, Bhangu, AA, Haque, PD, Kamarajah, SK, Picciochi, M, Zola, S, Nepogodiev, D, Glasbey, J & on behalf of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery 2026, 'Interventions to reduce postoperative mortality in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review', British Journal of Surgery, vol. 113, no. 6, znag038. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znag038
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Environmentally Sustainable Hospitals in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries 2025, 'Energy security as a crucial component of health infrastructure: global evidence and actions', The Lancet Planetary Health, vol. 9, no. 11, 101329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101329
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