India establishes National Bariatric Surgery Registry

Indian bariatric registry

The Registry study will analyse treatment outcomes with regards to percentage excess weight loss and resolution of co-morbidities including, diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnoea, dyslipidemia, etc.

The Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of India (OSSI) has taken an initiative to established a National Bariatric Surgery Registry for maintaining a national database of bariatric surgeries in India. The registry is registered with Clinical Trials Registry of India and began capturing data in March 2016.

Rationale behind the Registry

The registry is an open-label, observational, retrospective and prospective, real-time data capturing of usage, outcome in bariatric & metabolic surgery. A minimum of 5,000 Patients per year will be enrolled in this registry which will be running in centres in the following cities: Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkatta, Bangalore, Cochin, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Indore, Rajcot, Surat, Baroda, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Kanpur, Patna, Aurangabad, Mysore, Calicut, among others.

Rajesh Khullar

“The number of bariatric procedures in India is growing , as well as the number of surgeons taking up the specialty,” said the Registry’s Principal investigator of the study, Dr Rajesh Khullar who is also the President of OSSI. “In spite of performing more than 10,000 surgeries in 2013, there is no registry in our national organisation to document all these procedure for measurement on national level outcome and clinical studies based on the outcome.”

He explained that the Registry will help surgeons to standardise patient selection, procedure selection, help to standardise patient care and a consistency in surgical skills and post-operative follow-up. As well as helping to gain reimbursement from private and pubic insurance companies.

The study will also analyse:

• Treatment outcomes with regards to percentage excess weight loss and resolution of co-morbidities including, diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnoea, dyslipidemia, etc.
• Short term and long-term outcomes of the procedures including nutritional outcomes.

The Registry is utilising Dendrite Clinical Systems’ software and can be accessed using a standard web browser, allowing registrants to enter data anyplace with an Internet connection without the need to install additional software or perform any complex system configurations. This web-based system allows the individual clinician to enter patient information onto a database whether in hospital, from an office based practice or even at home.

“Overall, we will be in a much better position to report authentic evidence based data that will help us demonstrate quality of bariatric surgery in India and enable us to publish scientific articles,” Khullar concluded.