Hot topics in emergency general surgery research: ESTES members survey 2022

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Introduction:

Before this project, it was not known which are the most important topics to be researched within emergency general surgery fields, to date. The section of emergency general surgery of ESTES thought in designing a short survey of it's members to find out the research priorities for the next years and concentrate on developing projects in these directions.

Material & Methods: A short survey monkey was designed, comprising of 6 questions and sent to all ESTES members in May 2022. The questions were designed to scope the interest of ESTES members in participating in research projects designed by a working group from EGS section of ESTES and published under collaborative working approach. Also, from a series of common emergency surgery pathologies, the respondents were asked to nominate the most important topic in which they wanted to see more research work published.

Results: 84 responses were received from different ESTES members. Vast majority ( around 80% ) were interested to hear/read more about research projects developed by ESTES and a similar number were willing to participate in multi-center research projects as co-authors. From the 15 emergency surgical pathologies proposed for further research in the survey, 5 of them were recognised as important and of immediate interest, these scoring 10% or more of the total number of the members votes.

Conclusions: Based on the results of the survey, the section proposed to steer the next projects of research onto the pathologies indicated by the members, as of major interest.

References: N/A, members survey using Survey Monkey tool.

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