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.
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.
