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Neurodevelopment/ Simpson-Ramsey Symposium, April 17,
2014, UAB Cudworth Building. Speakers include Carla Shatz,
PhD, Stanford University; Greg Barsh, MD, PhD, Hudson Alpha/
Stanford University; Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, Yale
University; Leon Dure, MD, UAB; and Donna Ferriero, MD,
University of California, San Francisco.

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For more information on UAB’s Department of Neurology visit: uab.edu/medicine/neurology
For more information on UAB’s Division of Neurosurgery visit: uab.edu/medicine/surgery/neurosurgery

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issue highlights
Neurosurgical Database Project Produces
Continuous National Clinical Registry

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Deep brain stimulation is
performed in a UAB Hospital
operating suite. UAB
neurosurgeons perform 4100
surgical procedures annually.

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Noteworthy Events

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Neurosurgical Database Project
Produces Continuous National
Clinical Registry of Procedures
UAB neurosurgeons are encouraging colleagues

program,” says UAB neurosurgeon Barton Guthrie, MD.

nationwide to join the first continuous national clinical

“This repository enables neurosurgeons to determine their

registry for neurosurgical procedures and practice

value proposition with regard to neurosurgical procedures,

patterns. The National Neurosurgery Quality and

providing data that reflect real-world patient outcomes

Outcomes Database (N²QOD) is a product of the

such as pain relief, patient satisfaction with regard to

NeuroPoint Alliance (NPA). It is jointly endorsed by the

expectations, and actual return-to-work data.”

American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the
Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

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EVOLVE Assesses Balloon Kyphoplasty

“The NPA envisioned a patient registry that captured

He adds, “N²QOD provides practice groups and
hospitals with an infrastructure for real-time analysis and
utilization of care quality parameters such as length of

data from a wide variety of neurosurgical practices, both

stay, infection rates, and complication rates. This is a case

private and academic. The N²QOD, launched in February

of neurosurgeons creating a valid and accurate system to

2012, is the organization’s most significant quality

manage practice data for neurosurgeons.”

MIST provides 24-hour consultation and referral services to physicians.
Contact MIST by calling 800.822.MIST (6478).
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