Eurospine Spine Tango - The Spine Society of Europe

Our visionSpine surgery is a heavily technology driven medical discipline with alack of sufficient evidence for many therapies. Whenever new innovationsenter the market they should be carefully surveyed and monitoredsince neither laboratory testing nor randomised controlled trials providethe final conclusive information about the product performance and itssafety in the multitude of the different clinical and post-market settings,i.e. in reality. Accordingly, opinion leaders in spinal surgery recommendconsistent and consequent documentation of treatment outcomes andrigorous post-market surveillance of implants for adverse events. Eurospine,the Spine Society of Europe has partnered up with an internationalleader in the field of medical registries and has developed a commonlanguage for recording and reporting treatments and outcomes for andof spinal pathologies. In order to identify rare adverse events fast and increasethe power of our observations, a joint database for all participantsis equally important. This vision triggered the development of SpineTango, the only international spinal registry to date. Spine Tango canmeanwhile look back at a 10 years history and over 30`000 documentedcases from more than 40 hospitals. We are looking forward to welcomingyou as a contributing new member in this visionary endeavour.E. Munting, MD,head of the Spine Tango committeeContactUniversity of BerneInstitute for Evaluative Research in MedicineChristoph Röder, MD PhD MPHMichal Neukamp, MDStauffacherstr. 78CH-3014 Bernechristoph.roeder@memcenter.unibe.chmichal.neukamp@memcenter.unibe.chInfowww.eurospine.org→ click on SPINE TANGO