ASPS breast implant registry
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Representatives from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons offer the society's North American Breast Implany Registry to silicone breast implant PMA sponsors at a Feb. 10 meeting with Amit Sachdev, FDA's associate commissioner for legislation. Created in July 2000, the 10,972-procedure registry could fulfill an Oct. 14-15 panel-recommended registry condition (1"The Gray Sheet" Oct. 20, 2003, p. 3). At the meeting, ASPS also introduced the Tracking Outcomes in Plastic Surgery database, a HIPAA-compliant, web-based system that compiles physician data submissions...
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