Registries

Providing Online Collaborative Opportunities to Advance Evidence-Based Medicine 

RMEC has identified a need to gather data around the efficacy of different treatments in spine health care delivery in order to identify best practices and incorporate them into clinical practice.  Care based only on informed opinion, personal observation or tradition is not always reliable, while health care driven by robust comparative clinical evidence is the gold standard.  To that end, RMEC is developing two case registries, one in biologics and the other in posterior dynamic stabilization. The first to be launched will be biologics. Surgeons will upload case information on spine surgery across diverse case settings to a collaborative online platform. 

As data is collected in the registry, it can then be extruded from all cases for analysis by member surgeon investigators, and results will be available to all participating surgeons.  This data and its subsequent analysis will provide a very useful tool for gathering real-world clinical data on the application and use of osteobiologics, and create the ability to innovate with FDA-approved products based on comparative clinical evidence.  It will also help build a collaborative mindset within the spine surgery community.  RMEC has contracted with Syndicom (SpineConnect) to host these case registries.  We are in the final stages of determining the data fields for the Biologics Registry, which is expected to go live in Summer 2010.  The second registry on Posterior Dynamic Stabilization is expected to come online in Fall 2010.  If you are interested in learning more about this project, please contact RMEC at osteobiologics@resourcesmec.org, or call Danelle Winship at 970-375-3644. 

If you have an interest in the Biologics Registry, please fill out this SURVEY and fax it to 970-375-3648.  The survey helps us determine the data fields for the registry and identify future members.