The Importance of a Registry in Spinal Surgery

Spine surgery is one of the fastest growing medical specialties with high epidemiological and financial societal impacts. There are compelling needs for evidence generation and quality assurance. Those aims require nothing other than a standardized documentation as one common language. An important scientific and methodological approach under such conditions is a registry, whereas objective data from care providers should be reasonably accompanied by subjective data from the patients. Not only high-quality data collection but also pragmatic methodological evaluation approaches are required for generation of sound evidence.