The Fifth IFSO Global Registry Report (2019) has been released at the XXIV World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) in Madrid, Spain. Published by Dendrite Clinical Systems, under the auspices of the IFSO, the publication reports data from more than 60 countries on over 833,000 operations including baseline obesity-related disease, operation types, operative outcomes and disease status after bariatric surgery.
Dendrite Clinical Systems has announced the installation of its National Bariatric Surgical Registry software at the Sheik Al Jaber Al Sabah Hospital, in Kuwait. The Sheik Al Jaber Al Sabah Hospital, opened by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah in November 2018, consists of five towering 10-stories structures built on a 220,000 square meters and has a hospital bed capacity of around 1,160 with 36 operation rooms, a medical centre, a helipad and a parking lot accommodating some 5,000 vehicles.
Dendrite Clinical Systems and the Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong have launched the Asian Hypospadias Outcome Registry (AHOR), is a prospective web-based patient registry that will collect, record and analyse the treatment and outcomes of patients undergoing surgical repair.
Dendrite Clinical Systems has launched its ‘One-button push’ outcomes module, allowing clinicians to instantly produce their outcomes with the push of a single button. This enhancement is the latest in a series of advances incorporated into the company’s clinical registry software.
Dendrite Clinical Systems, the publisher of Bariatric News, is pleased to announce issue 40 of the newspaper is now available to view/download. The newspaper reports on research, technology, events and policy in the bariatric specialty, the latest clinical studies, policy changes and product news, the latest meetings and events, interviews prominent bariatric experts, and host debates between specialists on controversial topics.
Dendrite Clinical Systems – in collaboration with Haemotology Cancer Care (UCLH Charity), the Royal Free Charity, HaemSTAR (an organisation researching non-malignant haematology) and MPN Voice – have launched the MASCOT (Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Splanchnic Vein Thrombosis, MPN-SVT) Registry, a UK wide registry for patients with myeloproliferative diseases suffering from splanchnic or abdominal vein thrombosis.
Thoracic surgery report shows large increase in thoracoscopic (VATS) resections
Dendrite Clinical Systems and the Society for Cardiothoracic surgery (SCTS) have published a new report that demonstrates importance collecting and analysing data from thoracic surgery. The report states that a large increase in thoracoscopic (VATS) resections is responsible for most of the recent increase in lung cancer surgery, rising from 749 cases in 2010-2011 to 2,753 in 2014-2015, an increase of more than 3.5 times. By 2014-2015, 40% of lobectomies and more than 50% of sublobar resections were performed by VATS.
“The three data sources that make up this report are all interesting in their genesis and history. The long-term success of the Thoracic Surgical Register is undoubtedly due to its simplicity and usefulness for surgeons, which accounts for it being the longest-running thoracic surgical audit project in the world,” said Mr Richard Page, President of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery. “The SCTS will continue to champion activity and outcomes reporting, to highlight variations in practice, and to improve the care of our patients.”
The report entitled, ‘Third National Thoracic Surgery - Activity & Outcomes Report 2018’, includes an update of the thoracic registry (with data from 1980-2015, data from the SCTS thoracic database (which ran from 2014-2017) and a pilot project reporting unit outcomes in pneumothorax and pleural sepsis surgery using Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data.
“This report again demonstrates the continuing value clinical governance delivers, especially in terms of improving long-term patient outcomes,” said Dr Peter Walton, Managing Director of Dendrite. “I would like to thank the SCTS for their support and pay tribute to all the contributors for their endeavours, without whom this report would not have been possible. We look forward to working with the SCTS in the future and publishing additional reports that will provide even greater insights into cardio-thoracic surgery in the UK and Ireland.”
