British Spine Registry
The British Spine Registry (BSR) is a web-based database for the collection of information about spinal surgery in the UK.
The BSR was established in May 2012 by the British Association of Spine Surgeons to monitor the outcomes of spinal procedures, collecting valuable and insightful data, to better understand procedures and techniques and a patient’s experience and quality of life, with the aim to improve patient safety and monitor the results of spinal surgery.
The electronic and mostly automated system enables Spinal Consultants to collect a wide range of data points
This Registry enables the collection of personal data regarding patients undergoing spinal treatment.
Currently the Registry has over 3000 users and over 250,000 patients.
All data is subject to GDPR
The BSR/ BASS is the Data Controller, and Amplitude is the Data Processor under data protection rules.
Friends and Family Test
How likely are you to recommend to friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment?
This data is collected from patients’ responses the spine registry. You can view the full version of patient responses here.
Patient Reported Outcome Measures
What are PROMs?
PROMs measure a patient’s health status or health-related quality of life at a single point in time, and are collected through short, self-completed questionnaires. This health status information is collected before and after a procedure and provides an indication of the outcomes or quality of care delivered to patients.
Through the British Spine Registry Mr Seel collects PROMs data for all his patients to ensure he continues to provide a high quality of care and is able to measure outcomes for his patients and compare this to national statistics.
What outcome measures are used?
EQ-5D
The EQ-5D is a well-known, validated and widely used health status instrument. It was developed by the EuroQol Group in the 1980s to provide a concise, generic instrument that could be used to measure, compare and value health status across disease areas.
ODI
The Oswestry Disability Index is an extremely important tool that researchers and disability evaluators use to measure a patient’s functional disability. The test has been around since 1980 and is considered the ‘gold standard’ of low back pain functional outcome tools.
Mr Seel’s PROMs data
This data is pulled directly from the BSR using their own data analysis tools. Funnel plots below show that Mr Seel is in the top 10 surgeons in terms of number of patients entered onto the Registry, and that his outcomes for both EQ-5D and ODI are in the top 5% of all spinal surgeons entering data.