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. 2012 Jun;2(2):71–78. doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1319772

Table 1. Spine Trauma Registry Minimum Dataset Data Items.

Category Data Items
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.