Authorship Policy

• Study participant: any user with a professional background in line with the purposes of this study (including but not limited to consultants and trainees surgeons, anaesthetists, intensivists, advanced nurse practitioners, physicians associates and other allied healthcare professionals involved in the management and decision making process for patient admitted to hospital with a pathology requiring an emergency laparotomy) registering for an account and completing all the activities associated with the “DILEMMAstudy participant course” will be acknowledged in any peer reviewed publications associated with the DILEMMA study group. Depending on the journal policies such acknowledgment may be made in the “Acknowledgement” session of the publication or via a link to a file hosted on the Dilemma study group website. If you do not wish for your details to be used for this purpose please do notify the DILEMMA study group (see "Your Information" form in the DILEMMAstudy participant course). Every participant will receive a breakdown of their results including decision making consistency index and most relevant factors affecting decision making according to Judgement Analysis methodology. Participating institutions will receive an anonymised report of the results of their participating members.
• Members of the group who do not take responsibility for authorship of the article but have contributed to the work that led to the article (Nonauthor Group Member or Recruiter). Individuals that opt to become recruiters for the DILEMMA study group will be acknowledged under this definition as nonauthor group members in any peer reviewed publication associated with the DILEMMA study activities (as per Council of Science Editors - CSE - Recommendations). Nonauthor Group Member roles will be assigned on a corporate model. For each institution involved in the DILEMMAstudy activities we will accept up to six nonauthor group members or recruiters in one of the following combinations:
  • One consultant and one trainee for the departments of anaesthetic, intensive care and surgery (two for each department, for a total of six authors). The minimum accepted recruitment for each department is 15 participants in total (including recruiters) for a total of 45 recruitments per institution.
  • For institutions where anaesthetic and intensive care departments are not separate entities, three individual recruiters will be accepted (at least one of which a trainee) for the departments of intensive care/anaesthetic and surgery (three for each department, for a total of six authors). The minimum accepted recruitment for each department is 20 participants in total (including recruiters) for a total of 40 recruitments per institution.
  • For institutions where no trainees or trust grades are employed and the total consultant body per department is less than 20, one recruiter will be accepted for every 6 recruited individuals (including the recruiter).
  The departments of Surgery, Anaesthetic and Intensive Care in the same institution should participate together, however they don't have to, provided that the minimum number of participants per participating department is recruited.
  In order to join the DILEMMA study group the above individuals will need to: (1) Register for an account (www.dilemmastudy.org/participate) and complete all the activities associated with the “DILEMMAstudy participant course”. (2) Recruit an appropriate number of suitable participants (including but not limited to consultant and trainee surgeons, anaesthetists, intensivists, advanced nurse practitioners, physicians associates and other allied healthcare professionals - see above for details) within their institution. Recruited individuals will have to register for an account and complete all the activities associated with the “DILEMMAstudy participant course”.(3) Register the initiative as a quality improvement project in their institution (for UK centrers only).(4) Ensure that the resources available via the Website (dilemmastudy.org) are accessible via their institution’s IT network.
• Members of the group who do take responsibility for authorship of the article (author group member): group members directly involved in the preparation, submission and revision of any manuscript associated with the activities of the DILEMMA study. The top recruiting team (see above) will be offered full authorship in any manuscript where the data they generated is used.

Privacy Policy

Interpretation and Definitions

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
• The DILEMMA Study Group (referred to as either, "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to the DILEMMA study group.
• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Website.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the DILEMMA Study Group. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the DILEMMA Study Group to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the DILEMMA Study Group, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the DILEMMA Study Group in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to the DILEMMA study webiste, accessible from https://www.dilemmastudy.org
• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the DILEMMA Study Group, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Types of Data Collected

• Email address
• First name and Last name
• Place of work
• Address
• Occupation
• Usage Data

Usage Data

Use of Your Personal Data

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
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• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, regarding updates or informative communications related to the DILEMMA study.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service and your experience.

• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent. The DILEMMA Study Group is not-for-profit. No data sharing, transfer or disclosure (following Your consent) will be performed for profit purposes.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and for the purposes of the DILEMMA study initiative. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed by team members of the DILEMMA Study Group. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer. The DILEMMA Study Group will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Under certain circumstances, We may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). Other legal requirements. We may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
• Comply with a legal obligation
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We have taken and will take all reasonable steps to protect your data. Your data is stored in a secure server and communication with this website is protected by encryption protocols. You can request a copy of your personal data at any time. Please contact Us at info@dilemmastudy.org.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers. If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

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Changes to this Privacy Policy

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Contact Us

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