National Quality Registry for Obesity Surgery (SOReg)

• Registry Manager: Örebro County Council
• Registry Centre - affiliation: Uppsala Clinical Research Center (UCR)
• Start year: 2007
• Classifications used: Bariatric operations
• This registry contains data on:
  Interventions, surgical approach and technique, comorbidity, risk factors, antropometrics, PROM and PREM, laboratory data Follow-up data at 30 days and 1, 2, 5 and 10 years.
  

Description of registry

SOReg was started in 2007 with the aims of registering surgical procedures for obesity in terms of volumes, methods, etc.; influencing outcome as complications, quality of life, risk factors and co-morbidity; and providing data for research.

Population

Patients who have undergone surgical interventions for obesity.

Ages in the registry

All ages.

Total volume of registry

Approximately 75 000 patients.

Volume over the past operating year

2019: 4 700.

Coverage rate

Between 2007-2019, the registry has 80-90 percent of patients, and between 2010-2017 the registry has 98 % of patients who underwent bariatric surgery in Sweden.
During the same time period the Swedish patient registry had 70-80 % of patients undergoing bariatric surgery.

References on validations

The registry regularly performs random comparisons between the registry data and patient records, see annual report at Registry website.
Note: Variable lists are updated on a regular basis. For the latest version, please contact the registry.