Dendrite Clinical Systems and the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in the UK are pleased to announce the SCTS Conference News 2022 newspaper is now available to view/download. 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.
Researchers led by the Clinical Research Unit at the Special Unit for Biomedical Research and Education (SUBRE), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Greece, have initiated a randomised control trial (RCT) that will compare minimally invasive extracorporeal circulation (MiECC) with conventional cardiopulmonary bypass (cCPB).
Dendrite Clinical Systems, working in close cooperation with the SCTS and several cardiac centres, has developed a series of ‘Dashboards’ that allow users to access to their unit’s surgical outcomes and compare them to national results in real-time. By uploading their data to the central Dendrite National Cardiac Surgical Registry, individual units or centres can instantly benchmark their results via an on-line database for internal consumption to assist units with their own clinical governance and for auditing purposes.
Dendrite Clinical Systems is delighted to announce the first ever report from New Zealand’s Te Rēhita Mate Ūtaetae - Breast Cancer Foundation National Register. The ground-breaking report, titled, “30,000 voices: Informing a better future for breast cancer in New Zealand,” covers 30,000 patients diagnosed from 2003 to 2019.
The European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) has signed an agreement to develop a series of web-based registries on organ 
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.
