Study protocol for OtoSurg 1: A prospective evaluation of worldwide tonsillectomy indications, techniques, and outcomes

• Zachary Elwell ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zaelwell@arizona.edu

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0184-127X

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• Emma Finnegan,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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• Kartik Motwani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Juyun Hwang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Caretia Washington,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Katharine G. Johnson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Audrey Y. Su,

  Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3361-0926

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• Rolvix H. Patterson,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7004-615X

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• Zhen Jason Qian,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Catherine A. Shaw,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Centre for Surgical Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Taseer Din ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work as joint senior authors.

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Sidra Medicine, Al Rayyan, Doha, Qatar, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, Al Rayyan, Doha, Qatar

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7770-9921

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• Maxwell P. Kligerman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors contributed equally to this work as joint senior authors.

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaUnited States of America

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• on behalf of the Global Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Initiative

  ¶Membership of the Global Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Initiative is provided in the Acknowledgements.

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