The 2026 Spine Atlas data call focuses on visualising treatment strategies and practice variation in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy, including surgical and non-surgical management.
Contributors provide structured case-level data collected during a defined four-month observation period.
International cross-sectional data collection including adult patients (≥18 years) treated for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy.
1 February – 31 May 2026
All eligible cases treated during this period should be recorded once.
Spine Atlas Data Call Phases:
Phase 1 – Case Collection
1 February – 31 May 2026
Contributors record eligible cases.*
*Retrospective data collection allowed, subject to ethics approval.
Phase 2 – Data Submission
1 – 30 June 2026
Contributors upload their dataset and complete the contributor survey.
Registration remains open until 30 June 2026.
Individual hospitals
Spine units
Individual treatment specialists / healthcare providers
National or regional registries
Spine Tango users
National societies
Data contributors should treat patients for DCM in principle; no minimum number of cases is required.
Each participating unit provides:
The dataset is designed to ensure comparability while keeping data collection low-burden.
Data may be submitted via Spine Tango, Excel data collection template, or registry export with variable mapping.
All data must be anonymised prior to submission.
Data contributors complete a structured survey describing institutional case volume, national coverage, potential selection bias, and healthcare system context. These metadata allow contextual interpretation of results.
Eligible contributors receive citable group authorship, acknowledgement in Spine Atlas outputs, and benchmarking summaries where applicable. Where more than two authors are proposed, names are distributed across publications to maintain manageable author lists.
The SAI protocol was reviewed by the Ethics Committee of Eastern Switzerland (BASEC AO_2024-00111).
Contributors are responsible for local regulatory compliance. Country-specific guidance, templates, and application examples are available in the Resources section.
Time commitment: approx. 15 minutes for the contributor survey plus 2–3 hours for 20–40 patients (less if data are routinely collected in a spine registry).
Complete the form below to register your institution or registry for participation in the Spine Atlas 2026 DCM data call.
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