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.
Dendrite Clinical Systems is to install its Intellect System to track outcomes of cardiothoracic surgery at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, London, UK. The company’s data capture software currently supports approximately 85% of cardiac units in the UK. 
Dendrite Clinical Systems and Waldenström’s Macroglobulinaemia United Kingdom Charity have published the First UK Waldenström’s Macroglobulinaemia Registry Report 2018 – the first report of its kind in the world. 
Dendrite Clinical Systems, the publisher of Bariatric News, is pleased to announce issue 38 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 and the British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI) have launched the British Registry for Immunotherapy (BRIT), a web-based patient registry that records immunotherapy treatment of patients under the care of BSACI consultants practicing in the UK.
Dendrite Clinical Systems, under the auspices of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO), has published the Fourth IFSO Global Registry Report (2018) at the federation’s XXIII World Congress in Dubai, UAE. The latest report features data from more than 50 countries on over 394,000 operations including baseline obesity-related disease, operation types, operative outcomes and disease status after bariatric/metabolic surgery.
Dendrite and IFSO publish 6th IFSO Global Registry Report
The Sixth IFSO Global Registry Report (2021) has been published by Dendrite Clinical Systems, under the auspices of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO). The publication reports data from 50 countries on over 507,290 operations including baseline obesity-related disease, operation types, operative outcomes and disease status after bariatric surgery.
The report is the culmination of years of research and analyses from the IFSO Global Registry Project, which was established in January 2014 to demonstrate that it is possible to merge and analyse bariatric and metabolic surgical data from different countries and centres.
“We are proud to publish the Sixth iteration of the IFSO Global Registry Report,” said Dr Peter Walton, Managing Director of Dendrite Clinical Systems. “The global pandemic and cancellation of elective surgery in many parts of the world means collecting and analysing data has been particularly challenging. It is a testament to the professionalism of bariatric specialists that we are able to publish such a detailed report in such difficult circumstances.”
Data collection
Data collection for the Global IFSO Registry was facilitated via Dendrite’s two hybrid data entry portals for online electronic submission:
- "On-line data entry" is an online database portal accessible over the Internet that enables surgeons/data managers to enter cases (with anonymised patient identifiers) using a simple on-line data form with just 4 pages of questions (typically takes just 3-4 minutes to complete per patient record).
- "IFSO Upload-My-Data" web portal is a proven interface designed to enable a community of surgeons or physicians to create a national or international database; even if there are different database systems at the local level, the data from each can be integrated into the central, merged registry. The platform has been successfully utilised in a number of other national and international registries (for cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery) and has been specifically tailored for the IFSO project to enable both individual centres and national registries to submit data in batches on-line.
The focus of analysis for the current report is primary operations performed in the calendar years 2016-2020, which amounts to 255,620 operations. Throughout the report, the authors have sought to highlight data from national/regional registries that they believe capture at least 80% of the patients undergoing metabolic/bariatric surgery in their country. The report has detailed information on:
- 128,382 Roux en Y gastric bypass operations (50.2% of all operation records submitted)
- 94,315 sleeve gastrectomy procedures (36.9%)
- 19,421 one anastomosis gastric bypass procedures (7.6%); and
- 8,539 gastric banding procedures (3.3%)
“I would like to encourage countries that are establishing their bariatric and metabolic programs to set up a national registry and to encourage countries that have registries to aim to cover as many if not all of the procedures performed,” IFSO President, Dr Lilian Kow, states in the report. “By having as many national registries contributing towards the IFSO global registry, IFSO will in return provide the key aspects of quality assurance and global trends that will be essential to guide us in our mission to optimise the control of adiposity-based chronic diseases and to provide us with the tools in our mission to unify the global scientific, surgical and integrated health communities, for the purpose of dissemination of knowledge, collaboration and establishing universal standards of care for the treatment of individuals with adiposity-based chronic disease.”
The Global IFSO Registry Project was headed by Wendy Brown (Australia), Lillian Kow (Australia), Scott Shikora (USA), Ronald Liem (The Netherlands), Richard Welbourn (UK), John Dixon (Australia), and Peter Walton and Robin Kinsman (Dendrite Clinical Systems Ltd, UK).
To access the Sixth IFSO Global Registry Report, please click here
If you are interested in participating in the Seventh IFSO Global Registry Report, please email
ifsoregistry@e-dendrite.com for more information
