Dendrite Clinical Systems’ unique and innovation clinical software is been employed for a new innovative Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and Research trial that is seeking to improve the quality of care delivered to patients requiring hip or knee joint replacement surgery by introducing two complimentary care-bundles for mild anaemia and Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) into routine clinical practice.
Dendrite Clinical Systems is to install its “Intellect System” to track outcomes of cardiothoracic surgery at the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care and High Dependency Unit, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. The establishment of a Dendrite system at the unit will improve the quality of data and coding quality by creating effective clinical data entry and reporting, and data validation. 
Dendrite Clinical Systems and the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in the UK are pleased to announce the SCTS Conference News 201 newspaper is now available to view/download. This is the third successive year Dendrite has published the newspaper on behalf of the SCTS. The newspaper reports a multitude of presentations from the meeting including the latest and the best information on new technologies and techniques in cardio-thoracic surgery. 
Dendrite Clinical Systems, the publisher of Bariatric News, is pleased to announce issue 35 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.
SBMSK and Dendrite Clinical Systems to establish National Registry of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery of Kazakhstan
The Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgeons of Kazakhstan (SBMSK) and Dendrite Clinical Systems will establish a National Registry of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery of Kazakhstan. The purpose of the Registry is to collect information on patients and bariatric procedures in the country so researchers can use the data to improve outcomes in patients.
“Bariatric surgery in Kazakhstan is a relatively new branch of medicine. Therefore, I really wanted this part of the surgery to go the right way from the very beginning. We wanted to understand and see the overall picture of bariatric surgery in our country. What procedures are performed and in what quantity? what quality and result?,” explained President of SBMSK, Professor Oral Ospanov, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Head of Department of Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgery at Astana Medical University, in the Republic of Kazakhstan. “And in order to have an objective picture of what is happening, we created a bariatric register, looking at the experience of other countries. It was important to understand where we stand and to determine the population's need for bariatric surgery.”
The registry uses Dendrite’s intuitive Intellect-Web registry software that facilitates the collection, recording and analysis of patient and procedural data from all bariatric procedures performed at the hospital including baseline demographic data, procedure type (including OAGB/MGB), all complications that might occur and also notes the severity of post-op complications (using the Clavien-Dindo classification). The system also takes into account the use of gastric balloons so that a subsequent first surgical procedure becomes a Primary Procedure and does not appear as a revision.
"The benefits we can get from launching the register are enormous. The quality and safety of various types of operations will be assessed. The data will be used for analysis and research, as well as improving the quality of care provided,” Professor Ospanov added. “The data we receive will be reported to the Ministry of Health and the Health Insurance Fund to make appropriate decisions. Ultimately to show the medical community and the public that this is a very safe surgery that can treat many diseases, as well as overcome the stigma regarding the treatment of obesity and related diseases, which could have formed in our country.”
About Dendrite
Dendrite Clinical Systems is a UK-headquartered international company with over a 30-year track record as a specialist provider of secure clinical registries, analysis software and consultancy services for the international healthcare sector, specifically for clinical research, multi-centre real-world studies, observational registries, international, national and hospital clinical databases.
Dendrite has been recognised as a leading provider of clinical registries across various specialties with a unique track record of implementing over 200 major clinical registry systems globally including systems for major research projects for medical device companies, CROs and pharmaceutical companies.
