Key Objectives
To best achieve its mission of fostering excellence in spinal care,
the EuroSpine Foundation must achieve 3 key objectives:
• Optimize treatment outcomes
• Optimize patient management
• Promote and encourage best quality spine centers
The strategies to achieve these objectives are here below listed and further developed in this webiste.
Strategies to optimize treatment outcomes:
- Spine Specialist courses
- Fellowship programs
- Treatment Outcome Assessment through the use of registries
- Health Tech Assessment
- Basic and Clinical research
- Develop a communication platform for the specialists
- through the Europeans Spine Journal
- at the occasion of the annual meeting
- through the ESF and SSE website portals to the SSE members
- through other appropriate channels
Strategies to optimize patient management:
- Spine Specialist courses (networking aspect surgeon-non surgeons)
- Establish best patient management practice and create guideline establishment through:
- Treatment Outcome Assessment through the use of registries
- Health Tech Assessment
- Clinical outcome research
- Develop a communication platform for patients through
- Patient line
- Patient association line
- through the ESF and SSE website portal
- Develop a communication platform for the specialists
- through the Europeans Spine Journal
- at the occasion of the SSE annual meeting
- through the ESF and SSE website portals to the SSE members
- through other appropriate channels
Strategies to promote and encourage best Spine Centers:
- Promote the standards of best treatment outcome and patient management guidelines to the stakehold
- Spine Specialists
- Health authorities
- Health care payers
- Establish and promote quality assurance standards dedicated to Spine Centers
- Use of registries for outcome measurement
- Play an advocacy role towards all stakeholders complying with the above standards
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