The International Neuromodulation Registry: Design, Organizational Structure, Governance, Ethical Framework, and Early Implementation of a Multinational Real-World Evidence Platform
Neuromodulation. 2026 Jun 24:S1094-7159(26)00626-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2026.06.466.
Online ahead of print.
1 PRISMATICS Lab - CIC-IT, INSERM 1402 (Predictive Research and Innovative Strategies for Medical & Advanced Technology Integration in Care Systems), CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France; Service de Neurochirurgie du Rachis, Chirurgie de la Douleur et du Handicap, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France; Prime Institute UPR 3346, CNRS, ISAE-ENSMA, Faculty of Sciences, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
2 NEC Software Solutions UK, Hemel Hempstead, UK; International Neuromodulation Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
3 Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Brussels, Belgium; STIMULUS research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Neurosurgery, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Radiology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Center for Neurosciences (C4N), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
4 Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Brussels, Belgium; STIMULUS research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Neurosurgery, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
5 Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Management, Rijnstate Hospital, Velp, The Netherlands; Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
6 Neurosurgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
7 Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany.
8 Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU Nice, France; FHU INOVPAIN, Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Nice, France.
9 Pain Research Center, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Queen Mary University and City St Georges, University of London, London, UK.
10 The James Cook University Hospital, Pain Management, Middlesbrough, UK.
11 First Department of Neurosurgery, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
12 Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Algology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
13 Department of Neurosurgery, University Clinical Center in Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
14 PRISMATICS Lab - CIC-IT, INSERM 1402 (Predictive Research and Innovative Strategies for Medical & Advanced Technology Integration in Care Systems), CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France. Electronic address: Amine.OUNAJIM@chu-poitiers.fr.
15 PRISMATICS Lab - CIC-IT, INSERM 1402 (Predictive Research and Innovative Strategies for Medical & Advanced Technology Integration in Care Systems), CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
16 NEC Software Solutions UK, Hemel Hempstead, UK.
17 International Neuromodulation Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
18 Hunter Pain Specialists, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia; Genesis Research Services, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia; School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia; Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, New South Wales, Australia.
19 International Neuromodulation Society, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
20 Anesthesia- Division of Pain Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
21 Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Clinic, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
22 University of Illinois at Chicago, Neurosurgery, Chicago, IL, USA.