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This chapter reviews the development of prospective clinical registries suitable for use in neurosurgery and the use of available large databases to answer questions that may be of interest to investigators. The challenges, limitations, pitfalls, and work required to use such systems are discussed.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

    Douglas Kondziolka

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Douglas Kondziolka

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Nader Pouratian

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Sameer A. Sheth

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Kondziolka, D. (2020). Registries and Big Data. In: Pouratian, N., Sheth, S. (eds) Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34906-6_38

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