Table 1. Spine Trauma Registry Minimum Dataset Data Items.
Category | Data Items |
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History | • Comorbidities • Anticoagulation medications • Antiplatelet medications • Previous spinal injury or surgery • Functional status ○ Activities of daily living ○ Mobility ○ Cognition |
Clinical examination | • ASIA impairment scale • Spinal cord injury level(s) • Spinal cord syndromes • Nerve root injury level(s) |
Spine injury characteristic | • Sum of injury levels • Upper cervical spine (C0-C2) ○ C0-C2 dislocation/dissociation ○ Occipital condyle fracture (list subtypes) ○ C1 arch fracture (list subtypes) ○ C1/2 rotatory subluxation ○ C2 Hangman's fracture (list subtypes) ○ Odontoid fracture (list subtypes) • Subaxial cervical spine (C3-7) ○ Morphology • Compression • Burst • Distraction • Translational or rotational ○ Discoligamentous complex integrity • Anterior ligamentous complex (disk/anterior longitudinal ligament/posterior longitudinal ligament) • Posterior ligamentous complex (facet joint/ligamentum flavum/spinous ligaments) • Thoracolumbar spine ○ Morphology • Compression • Burst • Translational or rotational • Distraction ○ Discoligamentous complex integrity • Anterior ligamentous complex (disk/anterior longitudinal ligament/posterior longitudinal ligament) • Posterior ligamentous complex (facet joint/ligamentum flavum/spinous ligaments) • Sacrum (subtypes to be listed) and coccyx |
Management | • Conservative ○ Without orthosis ○ Orthosis (list type) • Surgery ○ Timing to surgery ○ Surgical approach ○ Surgical level(s) ○ Procedure(s) • Decompression • Corpectomy/vertebrectomy • Discectomy • Instrumentation • Fusion • Osteotomy • Others ○ Devices • Cage (list type) • Screws (list type) • Wiring • Graft (list type) • Adjuncts (bone substitute/bone morphogenetic proteins/others) |
Outcomes | • Physician reported ○ Imaging studies (list different modalities) ○ Outpatient review (neurological examination) • Patient reported ○ SF-12 ○ GOSE ○ Pain scores |
ASIA, American Spinal Injury Association; SF-12, Short-Form Health Survey; GOSE, Glasgow outcome score extended.