Dendrite Clinical Systems is pleased to announce the prestigious journal, Obesity Surgery, has published a paper highlighting international bariatric surgery practice from the 4th Dendrite/IFSO Global Registry Report. The paper, ‘Bariatric Surgery Worldwide: Baseline Demographic Description and One-Year Outcomes from the Fourth Dendrite/IFSO Global Registry Report 2018’, (Himpens et al. Obesity Surgery. March 2019.
Dendrite Clinical Systems and The State of Kuwait Ministry of Health,
Dendrite Clinical Systems and The American Vein and Lymphatic Society (formerly the American College of Phlebology) are delighted to announce the launch of the American Vein and Lymphatic Society Registry - a ‘real-time’ clinical database that will identify practice patterns for venous and lymphatic disease diagnosis and treatment across North America.
Dendrite Clinical Systems and the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in the UK are pleased to announce the SCTS Conference News 2019 newspaper is now available to view/download. This is the fourth 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 39 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 pleased to announce its clinical database system has been selected to collect, record and analyse data from the Obesity Research Biobank Syndicate (ORBiS) Registry. ORBiS is a network of multidisciplinary professionals working towards a common goal: to gain novel insights into obesity and weight management, and help translate these findings into improved patient care. 
Dendrite to install Intellect System to track cardiothoracic surgery procedures at Auckland City Hospital
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.
This unique software allows an extensive array of in built analytic and risk modelling functions including:
- Simple distribution analyses (Single group, multi group descriptive statistics with Chi squared and Yates tests, t-tests)
- Bayes and logistic regression models
- Longitudinal Analysis (Kaplan Meier, Cox Regression, and Hazard curves for both survival and event free analysis)
- Sequential Outcome Analysis (CUSUM, CRAM, CRAO, VLAD, SPRTs)
- Volume/Outcome Analysis (Funnel Plots)
- Risk Scoring Evaluation (ROC curves & calibration plotting)
- Risk Scoring Algorithms (POSSUM, Parsonnet, Cleveland Clinic Scoring, EuroSCORE, Bayes and Neural Networks)
- Advanced Data Analysis and Links to SPSS / S-Plus / Crystal Reports
The Dendrite system also includes an in-built Web Intellect Report Editor (WIRE) tool enabling the local Database Administrator at the hospital to build templates for local clinical documents such as discharge letters, operation reports – allowing clinical users to automatically generate these documents for patients from the database system.
Dendrite’s unique clinical database system includes four types of analytics and reports:
- Visual dashboard - facilitating real-time data analysis dashboard reflecting the required analysis/reporting needs. This dashboard can be available to the Registry Administrator (reflecting combined registry data) as well as to each registry user (reflecting their individual data)
- Flexible data analysis tools
- Data export and filtering
- Clinical documents (such as operation notes and discharge summaries)
Dendrite's solution is a unique clinical outcomes software system, provides users with the ability to track time related clinical data for analysis of any clinical scenario, all within a single software environment. Through the use of inbuilt risk stratification algorithms clinicians can benchmark their results against national and international standards, adjusted for severity of illness using well-established statistical methods. The company’s data capture software currently supports approximately 85% of cardiac units in the UK.
