Outcomes
Surgi C Spine has invested in the GPOS (Global Patient Outcome System), which allows healthcare professionals to collate and analyse patients’ outcomes. The internet based tool allows spinal clinicians access to up-to-date information from any location, anytime and is provided by Surgi C as a service to its customers.
The interactive software allows patients to fill in a pre and post treatment questionnaire; cutting down the amount of time spinal clinicians need to spend on administration tasks. Allowing healthcare professionals have more time to focus on the practical, clinical side of the profession.
GPOS has been developed by a team of spinal clinicians and takes advantage of cutting edge technology. It provides up-to-date information to those who need it when they need it.
Key benefits for using the GPOS system are:
- Save time in collecting pre-treatment information
- Patients do all the work
- Database fills up without your intervention
- Get live outcome data based on diagnosis or treatment
- Collaborate and collate your outcomes
- You own all the data
How does it work?
- Clinicians register their patients on GPOS, and choose their language
- Their patients fill in a pre-treatment questionnaire before the consultation (saving time)
- Clinicians enter treatment information
- Post-treatment questionnaires are filled in by the patients after email reminders
- Clinicians can access the vast range of Outcomes Analysis
What Outcomes are measured?
- SF-36
- Oswestry Score
- Hospital Depression and Anxiety Score
- Visual Analogue Scores
- Pain Diagram
- Global Outcome Measures
Multi-Centre Clinical Trials
Multi-Centre clinical trials can be set up and run quickly and cheaply, because GPOS is internet based, large scale research can be undertaken at a fraction of the normal cost.
How do Multi-Centre clinical trials work?
- The principal investigator registers the trial on GPOS
- The principal investigator chooses which clinicians will participate
- Patients are sent email reminders to enter their data on the system
- Clinicians have instant access to all trial data as it is entered
