Chomsky-Higgins Kathryn, Miclau Theodore A, Mackechnie Madeline C, Aguilar Dino, Avila Jorge Rubio, Dos Reis Fernando Baldy, Balmaseda Roberto, Barquet Antonio, Ceballos Alfredo, Contreras Fernando, Escalante Igor, Elias Nelson, Vincenti Sergio Iriarte, Lozano Christian, Medina Fryda, Merchan Gavino, Segovia Julio, Guerado Enrique, Quintero Jose Eduardo, Morshed Saam, Bhandari Mohit, Miclau Theodore
San Francisco - East Bay Surgery Program, University of California, Oakland, CA, USA.
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Front Public Health. 2017 Apr 18;5:57. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00057. eCollection 2017.
Enhancing health research capacity in developing countries is a global health priority. Understanding the orthopedic burden of disease in Latin America will require close partnership between more-developed and less-developed countries. To this end, the Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation assembled a research consortium of Latin-American orthopedic leaders. Prior to the meeting, we surveyed attendees on perceived barriers to conducting research at their institutions. During the event, working groups discussed these barriers, developed strategies for addressing them, and planned future steps for collaboration. The participants established the need for global relationships that allow colleagues from Latin America to access to training and established investigational infrastructure of North American centers to address research questions relevant to their communities. As a result of the discussion, the International Orthopaedic Multicenter Study (INORMUS) in Fracture Care was initiated. Since then, an expanded international working group, Associación de Cirujanos Traumatológicos en las Americas (ACTUAR), has been created with the purpose of promoting increased global partnership for research capacity development.
提高发展中国家的卫生研究能力是一项全球卫生优先事项。要了解拉丁美洲的骨科疾病负担，需要较发达国家和欠发达国家之间建立密切的伙伴关系。为此，骨接合术与创伤护理基金会组建了一个由拉丁美洲骨科领军人物组成的研究联盟。在会议召开之前，我们就研究人员在其所在机构开展研究时所面临的感知障碍对与会者进行了调查。在会议期间，各工作组讨论了这些障碍，制定了应对策略，并规划了未来的合作步骤。与会者确定了建立全球关系的必要性，以便拉丁美洲的同行能够获得培训，并利用北美各中心已建立的研究基础设施来解决与其所在社区相关的研究问题。经过讨论，启动了骨折护理方面的国际骨科多中心研究（INORMUS）。自那时以来，一个扩大后的国际工作组——美洲创伤外科医生协会（ACTUAR）已经成立，其目的是促进加强全球伙伴关系以推动研究能力发展。
