Katrina Smith, Neurosurgical Society of Australasia,& nbsp;shunt.registry@nsa.org.au
The primary purpose of the Shunt Registry is to systematically collect information related to the use of cerebrospinal (CSF) shunts to guide best clinical practices, processes and improve health outcomes for patients with CSF shunts. Any hospital throughout Australasia where cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt surgery is performed is eligible to contribute data to the Shunt Registry & nbsp; Any patient undergoing a CSF shunt related procedure in an ethics approved site is eligible to contribute data to the Shunt Registry. There are no additional inclusion or exclusion criteria.
The Shunt Registry key objectives are to:
- Enable determination of the current indications, frequency and outcomes of CSF shunt related procedures;
- Enable measurement of CSF shunt longevity and device failure rates with benchmarking of CSF shunt component performance;
- Enable early identification of particular CSF shunt components associated with unexpectedly high failure rates;
- Measure the quality and safety of care to form benchmarking of outcomes between de- identified individuals and neurosurgical units in order to improve the quality of clinical care;
- Mitigate risk by using Shunt Registry data to rebut any inaccurate information published about the safety of CSF shunts;
- Provide an opportunity to study methods of improving the performance and outcomes of CSF shunts and their components through research projects;
- Provide a central repository of potentially re-identifiable information to allow rapid provision of accurate information to the neurosurgeon if the need arises
- Provide the neurosurgeon access to device information if a patient has an emergency need for neurosurgical care.
Feedback to contributing clinicians
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Australian Capital Territory
- National Capital Private
- Canberra Hospital
New South Wales
- Children's Hospital at Westmead
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- The Sydney Children's Hospital Randwick
- Nepean Hospital
- Macquarie University Hospital
- Prince of Wales Hospital
- St George Public Hospital
- Prince of Wales Private Hospital
- Sydney Adventist Hospital
- Concord Repatriation General Hospital
- John Hunter Hospital
- John Hunter Children's Hospital
- Liverpool Hospital
- Norwest Private
- North Shore Private
- Royal North Shore Hospital
- St Vincent's Public Hospital
- St Vincent's Private Hospital
- Westmead Hospital
- Westmead Private Hospital
- Wollongong Public Hospital
- Wollongong Private Hospital
Queensland
- Queensland Children's Hospital
- Brisbane Private Hospital
- Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
- Mater Children's Private Hospital
- Mater Private Hospital
- Gold Coast University Hospital
- Townsville Hospital
- Mater Hospital Townsville
- Sunshine Coast University Hospital
- Greenslopes Private Hospital
- Pindara Private Hospital
- Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Wesley Private Hospital
South Australia
- Calvary Wakefield Hospital
- Women and Children's Hospital
- Royal Adelaide Hospital
- Flinders Medical Centre
- Flinders Private Hospital
- Memorial Hospital
Tasmania
- Royal Hobart Hospital
- Calvary Lenah Valley Hospital
Victoria
- The Royal Children's Hospital
- Austin Hospital
- Melbourne Private Hospital
- Royal Melbourne Hospital
- Alfred Hospital
- Monash Health
- Monash Children's Hospital
- St Vincent's Hospital
- Cabrini Malvern
Western Australia
- Hollywood Private
- Royal Perth Hospital
- Perth Children's Hospital
- Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
New Zealand
- Braemar Hospital
- Christchurch Hospital
- Mercy Hospital (Dunedin)
- Dunedin Hospital
- Waikato Hospital
- Auckland Hospital
- Wellington Hospital
- Starship Childrens Hospital